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Is Tony Purnells Qual. idea...

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  • What was he thinking

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Tony Purnells qualifying idea?

Loosely, (from this months F1 Racing)

It revolves around a draw on Friday (Chook lotto) to determine driver positions for the first of three races over the weekend
Race1: Wherever you draw eg. If Michael draws 19, thats where he would start
Race2: Reverse grid to race 1, both of these races are 10 lap sprints
Aggregate position will determine starting position for the GP on the Sunday
 
Sounds like a good idea but 10 laps would not be long enough to have overtaking. The finishing order would be very similar to the starting order. The Renault's launch control would give them a big advantage.
 
I like Ross Brawns better.

Have a qualifying session of 1 hr. After 15 mins, the 5 slowest cars drop out. After another 15mins of qualifying, another 5 drop out. This carries on till there is a 15min free for all involving the 5 fastest cars.
 
That idea sounds good:tup:

I don't like the sprint races though, it would be entertaining but I think it misses the point of qualifying...
 
I heard Ross Brawn's idea on the weekend at Hungary and thought it was great.

One point I heard raised was that if you have the cars sorted by speed, how can you expect there to be overtaking? In the early years when failures were common, it happened, but these days teams know reliability is everything, so it just doesn't happen.
 
This could be a lot of fun. Hopefully they don't cripple the system with silly fuel/tire restrictions. It'd be interesting to see all the drivers race around for 10 laps with light fuel and fairly soft tires (depends on the track... but I'd imagine soft tires would last 10 laps even on the most abrasive surface track). This would promote flat-out driving... since the drivers wouldn't have to worry about conserving anything.
I suppose it really doesn't matter. Anything is better than the current system.
 
The current system blows, big time

Something has to be done or we get what happened at Silverstone
 
Drivers intentionally running slow laps to pre-determine their running order for qualifying. Everyone was afraid of the rain forcasted near the end of qualy... so a lot of the drivers ran slow laps to avoid running near the end.
 
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Drivers intentionally running slow laps to pre-determine their running order for qualifying. Everyone was afraid of the rain forcasted near the end of qualy... so a lot of the drivers ran slow laps to avoid running near the end.
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Oh that, I have no problem with stuff like that. It's just strategy. The team with the smartest strategy often wins, and not only in the race.
 
I agree, it didn't rain anyway so they all made bad calls.

10 laps, reasonably soft tyres, low fuel loads eh? Apart from the start line, how much overtaking do you see in the first 10 laps of a GP? Cause the average first stint has been about that long this season.
 
Yeah, and even though it's a sprint race it's not like they're going to risk their race equipment too much just to get a better grid position.
 
I think this Purnell chaos type thingy is a load of cobblers. Ok messing with grid order with lots of races works for 'smaller' formulae like touring cars or one make formulas for instance, the BTCC has been awesome this year with 3 races over a weekend providing loads of action but all this sprint race on a friday with a bingo session to pick grid positions then another race on saturday that wont be shown on tv??? then aggregate results creating the grid for the proper race on sunday??? I'm confused already :yuck:

Why not just go back to the system from 2 years ago nice n simple> :)
 
Ross Brawn's idea is the best I've heard. It's better than my idea, which was have a single-car qualifying session based on the finishing order of the previous race, and then a 15 minute free-for-all to try at set a better time.
 
I got a better idea, one 15 minute session. Nothing else, nada, zero, zilch. 15 minutes is the perfect time to get at best 2 runs in, maybe 3 depending on the track. All cars on course, let em flog it at will.
 

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