New Qualifying format a flop or not?

[MrJan]

I loved the 'old' 'old' format. Every Driver has one crack at a fast lap. A single mistake would cost dearly. Beautiful. You all know the story.

That's quite tedious though. I quite like the raw nature of having one shot at a hot lap but it really was dull to tune into for an hour.

I felt that the new qualifying system worked quite well for Q1 and Q2. It was unfortunate that it was such a disaster for Q3.

I found it needlessly confusing and didn't really think it offered anything more than last year's system, other than the possible injustice of a quick driver getting a grid slot based on the timing of the team.

If they want random grids to try and force some kind of excitement then they may as well go with a lottery system instead. Personally I thought we had a system that was about as interesting as it got. There was reasonable track action for most of the session, a tense final few minutes