Quote Originally Posted by anfield5 View Post
It is just another pathetic gimmick aimed at making a broken F1 less predictable. How many times are we going have to put up with silly gimmicks like this?

Last year's quali was fine, even better go back to q1 on Friday afternoon with all drivers having an hour to set their best time, and repeat the show on Saturday. It was simple it was fair and it worked, it also gave Friday a purpose.

The function of qualifying is to set the race start order i.e. best to the front, not to try and mix up the grid, they may as well just draw lots out of a hat, or start the race in reverse order of the previous race finish
The trouble with the old Friday/Saturday qualifying was that everyone who bought a ticket for Saturday wasted their money if the conditions turned out to have been better on Friday. The grid times all come from Friday and Saturday becomes an hour-long anticlimax.

The recent 3-phase knockout was good, and didn't need any fiddling around with, but a simple 1 hour on Saturday is a good system too. You'd see plenty of on-track action with that simple system if they just eased the limits on tyres and engines.

If we want to give Friday more of a purpose, I'd allow unlimited tyres and engines on Friday but not for the regular race drivers. It would give more of an opportunity to try out new drivers on Friday, without having to disadvantage one of your race drivers relative to the rest of the field.