- 23 Jul 11, 13:55#267140
Hello everyone I'm new here. I just have an opinion and was wondering what everyone else thinks about it.
The qualifying format is very exciting for the fans but I think it takes away from the race. The top teams are allowed additional time to improve their times and put distance between them and the lower qualifying teams. While this isn't a big deal for the qualifying it can translate into larger gaps during the race. For instance, from Q1 to Q3 the top teams (top three I believe) reduced their lap times by about 2 seconds (give or take). Granted this is in qualifying trim I promise you some of the teams are using this as a opportunity to work on their race trim. If not they are still getting valuable data that can be applied to the race setups. I think this format contributes to reduce overtaking in the race.
I know this is going to get a lot responses haha good and bad but hey here goes. I think the format should be reversed. I think the additional qualifying sessions should be reversed. I think the slower teams should be the ones that go into the additional sessions. This will give them the additional test data to be more competitive or at least reduce the gaps from the top teams. To prevent sandbagging I would offer championship points to the top qualifiers. The points should be large enough to entice the teams to chase the top spot but not significant enough that it would over shadow the race points. Maybe half increments or something.
Another option is possibly teams in the lower portion of the championship points standings be allowed maybe an additional testing session on the track.
what do you guys think
Todd
The qualifying format is very exciting for the fans but I think it takes away from the race. The top teams are allowed additional time to improve their times and put distance between them and the lower qualifying teams. While this isn't a big deal for the qualifying it can translate into larger gaps during the race. For instance, from Q1 to Q3 the top teams (top three I believe) reduced their lap times by about 2 seconds (give or take). Granted this is in qualifying trim I promise you some of the teams are using this as a opportunity to work on their race trim. If not they are still getting valuable data that can be applied to the race setups. I think this format contributes to reduce overtaking in the race.
I know this is going to get a lot responses haha good and bad but hey here goes. I think the format should be reversed. I think the additional qualifying sessions should be reversed. I think the slower teams should be the ones that go into the additional sessions. This will give them the additional test data to be more competitive or at least reduce the gaps from the top teams. To prevent sandbagging I would offer championship points to the top qualifiers. The points should be large enough to entice the teams to chase the top spot but not significant enough that it would over shadow the race points. Maybe half increments or something.
Another option is possibly teams in the lower portion of the championship points standings be allowed maybe an additional testing session on the track.
what do you guys think
Todd
