A qualifying idea
Discussion
All cars given one set of the same tyres and filled with the same amount of fuel.
All have 60 minutes in which to complete 20 or so consecutive laps; the time counting towards grid position being the average across those 20 laps.
If it starts to rain - the timing stops while tyres are changed.
If someone bins it requiring marshal intervention - timing stops - VSC until cleared - and off they go again
If someone spins it and there's yellows - tough.
For the most part, I wouldn't imagine the natural order of things to change much but we'd get all cars going for it over a longer period of time and easy for one small error to drop a driver quite a way down the grid to shake the order up a bit.
All have 60 minutes in which to complete 20 or so consecutive laps; the time counting towards grid position being the average across those 20 laps.
If it starts to rain - the timing stops while tyres are changed.
If someone bins it requiring marshal intervention - timing stops - VSC until cleared - and off they go again
If someone spins it and there's yellows - tough.
For the most part, I wouldn't imagine the natural order of things to change much but we'd get all cars going for it over a longer period of time and easy for one small error to drop a driver quite a way down the grid to shake the order up a bit.
StevieBee said:
For the most part, I wouldn't imagine the natural order of things to change much
In that case, why change the format?StevieBee said:
but we'd get all cars going for it over a longer period of time
No, they'd all manage the tyres in order to complete the twenty laps in as short a time as possible.StevieBee said:
and easy for one small error to drop a driver quite a way down the grid to shake the order up a bit.
Not really - they'd have another n laps to try to recover, rather than now where if you muff it up, you are generally punished quite hard (cf. Hamilton in Brazil)Not sure what problem you're trying to solve by effectively having a sprint race to decide the feature race grid.
Turbotechnic said:
How about running a fuel ballest for the top 6 depending on the race results from the previous gp.
1st = 50kg
2nd = 45kg
3rd = 40kg
4th = 35kg
5th = 30kg
6th = 25kg
That could mix up qualifying.
Can we get agreement on what is wrong with qualifying? And please, no ballast. 1st = 50kg
2nd = 45kg
3rd = 40kg
4th = 35kg
5th = 30kg
6th = 25kg
That could mix up qualifying.
F1 has always been about the fastest car - why equalize? If you artificially equalize you might as well move to a spec formulae and save a billion pounds a year for everyone.
Vaud said:
Turbotechnic said:
How about running a fuel ballest for the top 6 depending on the race results from the previous gp.
1st = 50kg
2nd = 45kg
3rd = 40kg
4th = 35kg
5th = 30kg
6th = 25kg
That could mix up qualifying.
Can we get agreement on what is wrong with qualifying? And please, no ballast. 1st = 50kg
2nd = 45kg
3rd = 40kg
4th = 35kg
5th = 30kg
6th = 25kg
That could mix up qualifying.
F1 has always been about the fastest car - why equalize? If you artificially equalize you might as well move to a spec formulae and save a billion pounds a year for everyone.
Vaud said:
Kinky said:
They should have a complete reverse grid, which would make for really entertaining racing; except of course on those tracks where overtaking is extremely limited
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