If points were given for qualifying...

[jens]

Well, as the topic has turned into discussions whether to give a point for quali/fastest lap or not then I'm among those, who do not support that "giving" view.

- The best ones score high points from GP's and fly away in the Championship standings. Why should they get even extra advantage?

- First there was no qualy - race and only race has been and is the decider. Why did qualification session come? Because all the drivers can't start alongside each other on the grid. Qualifying has not been meant to be a race decider - it came because there was no other option. But qualifying has already vital importance and those, who qualify at the back, have small chance of achieving top result. Why make qualifying even more important? The "compelled" part of the weekend that has turned into entertainment only in the modern period.

[agwiii]

What about a point for best dressed

Or the greatest number of piercings? Or tattoos?

[jso1985]

Some say it is his piercing good looks!

I say he looks gay :

Seriously I don't like to give points for pole, laps led or other stuff cuz then you would have a valid point to start giving points for things that have little to do with the race.
Fastest lap is ok for me though.
Let's keep the race as the important event, the other ones are just secondary

[agwiii]

I say he looks gay :

Seriously I don't like to give points for pole, laps led or other stuff cuz then you would have a valid point to start giving points for things that have little to do with the race.
Fastest lap is ok for me though.
Let's keep the race as the important event, the other ones are just secondary

Since passing is outlawed by the regulations, qualification often IS the race.

[jso1985]

well that's another subject, surely shouldn't be!

[agwiii]

well that's another subject, surely shouldn't be!

Perhaps another subject, but related to considering a point for pole. I'm still waiting for our first double-pole when Kubica is the fast qualifier in a race.