Originally Posted by tmx
Not a waste of time, need to drive a bit to get the feeling, especially drivers who gets little to no testing. How will you know how to setup the car for the rally? How about F1 practices, waste of times? No testings for newcomers like Rosjean.
Of course, you can have qualifying in addition to shakedown. Again I point out its better to qualify slower so you can start later, same thing. However, let highest qualifier choose his starting position, and so on for the next fastest qualifier. This is still down to tactic and will get abused. Don't think qualifying works for rallying.
It was seconds.