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Message: [QUOTE="Frank McGank, post: 13226949, member: 312989"] Most of the arguments against reverse grid races boil down to “it’s different and therefore I don’t like it”. It’s a helluva lot more organic than things like BoP and ‘fanboost’ that a lot of racing championships use these days. It’s more organic than DRS and the artificially ***** tyres F1 has been using to ‘increase the show’ for years. It’s arguably even more organic than budget caps and the current knockout qualifying format we have that was specifically created to make qualifying more entertaining. People forget there was an era in F1 where grids was drawn by lots, rather than by qualifying pace. It’s amusing to see people not complain about the ‘start on tyres used for fastest Q2 time’ which is significantly more gimmicky. With reverse grids, it gives the slower and less-funded teams a chance of scraping together more championship points if they’re willing to be risky and defend for their life. It also makes the championship that much harder to win. It’s not easy to slice through an entire field of cars when all of your championship rivals are doing the same. It wouldn’t just be a case of Max Verstappen at Monaco 2018, it would be watching the top drivers in the championship all being forced to get around slower cars without leaving themselves vulnerable to their championship rivals attacking from behind. Imagine Lewis and Max trying to get through the field without letting the other one get too far ahead. And unlike with lap traffic, every battle is for position and points. Slower cars aren’t going to get blue-flagged, so they’re not going to just roll over and cede positions. if they don’t want to abolish Saturday qualifying completely, the best way to do it would probably be a ¼ distance sprint race on Saturday with the grid based on the reverse of championship order. Then Sunday’s full-length race grid being the finishing order from Saturday’s event. [/QUOTE]

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