And again there is a new proof that it is safer to fly with a Formula One from the track than to ride a bike. Mark Webber is the unlucky man, whom it has now caught. In the "Mark Webber Tasmanian Challenge", a bike race over 250 kilometers, it overlooked an oncoming driver of a Nissan X-Trail. Webber collided head-on his bicycle, and according to initial reports, he broke his lower leg. He was immediately taken to hospital and operated on. He is, however, you believe the newspaper reports from Australia, well. He will have to spend only three days in hospital then start to have coincided with the rehab, so that his leg muscles do not completely disappear. What is certain is that he will not drive more this year and also its use in the first test in January, is at risk. Nevertheless luck! And of course me: Get well soon!
The FOTA (Formula One Manufacturers Association) has come up with some news and screwed to the rule of qualification around. And I actually thought was finally happy times with the rules. Obviously it is not the manufacturer. Instead, you want to make the quality now in two parts. Only 14 rounds should be the same length all vehicles on the track. In each round, the slowest driver is taken out, until only six cars remain. Then there is a pause and the six remaining drivers then fight in six more laps around the poles.
My congratulations to the FOTA should prevail because they have found by far the most unfriendly spectators and TV version, which you can imagine. How can we watch 14 cars at once? Since only the view of helping the sector times, and even that is in 14 drivers not to overlook simple. And then there are so few questions: What if a fly out, rotate, or otherwise as a yellow flag there? What if a team (of course not intentionally) uses a 'pad'? What if it starts raining in between? I think the current format is also not so good, but when MAN goes and assigns a point for the pole, it makes things more exciting. Only in the last race in Brazil, which would have brought more excitement, because McLaren would have had to consider whether you want to bring the security strategy, or maybe to a point more fights. I can not imagine that FOTA are interspersed, as the current rule allows to make TV stations more advertising interruptions.
Still short of the FIA GT - the colleagues from the "Le Mans project" in Argentina (* ENVY *) and make beautiful images .
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Why only watch 14 cars? Even all 20! Very weird idea, I simply can not understand why you need the other format, so the matter will quite well, again ... the change point for the pole but then I would also be good (but of course without fuel). And the whining about aerodynamic disabilities through 300 meters ahead of a moving vehicle ... I hear now
The problem is that you want to make the qualification more interesting for the spectators. Only if it works with the new rule is certainly questionable. What it would do but probably would be unusual starting positions, which would make sure the races more exciting. However, a qualification not only identify it as any starting lineup, but even one that is similar to the current balance of power, otherwise you could trigger off the same grid.
Well wait and see how the FOTA which presents in detail, as already mentioned, there is still some work out.
The quality is already interesting for the audience, it really does not need to fix what is not broken. Seems to me to be the only current sow that is driven by F1's village, where nothing goes into or out of the will be nothing. Yesterday's was "Bernie wants medals instead of points," let's see what tomorrow is.
I see it like Don. The current format, although ansich a good solution - compared to the individual time trial - but really interesting but only the last minute and when Kimi and Lewis again hinbekommen not the rounds for Q3. But otherwise, at least 6 places in Q3 for Ferrari, McLaren, Alonso and BMW were kept free. 're At the 6 pilots safely in 95% of the cases and then comes a hag, a trulli which allows refueling and complete just before P9 and P10 show.
FOTA's proposal sounds to me more like a 14-lap sprint. Always the last car, so on the track, may turn into the box and has its starting point. So I would suggest that. Not so the would not be feasible. Had just one question, how to get started this "sprint."
How about this: 60 minutes qualifying session, anyone can turn a total of 12 laps, with free choice of fuel load. But the charge was too little tricky. If you want to see ever-partout cars on the track, you could easily expand this proven format in that each rider must ride in every quarter of an hour one timed lap. In the end, it could also be the addition of all tests are scored.
The problem with the 60 minutes you already know: no one goes out in the first half hour, all waiting until the end. The television stations have so long resisted the format. Rightly, in my opinion.
How about this: the quality of format only now without fuel in the top 10, then is the fastest on Pole. Then abolish this but the parc ferme conditions and introduce the warm-up on Sunday morning, so that the relative strengths of the quality could change again if necessary until the race. That would be my wish.
Then the fastest may have had the pole, but what will happen to the strategy? The there are behind a little easier to pass at the start and the start of P1 is a hindrance? That is now more or less only if you beat the rounds on their own responsibility or similar ;-).
Ne is really neat solution it did not actually. Maybe just take a sprint, where, after any draw or so the box is drawn and then you have 45 minutes to fight forward and take the pole. Instead of drawing lots or flip, the result of the last race and use it as a starting order for the "quality sprint": D