F1 Qualifying - BORING

[P*Ting]

The new rules were supposed to stop the sport being 'just a procession' so what do they do?

They let them out one at a time.

For one lap each.

Crazy.

I can't be bothered to watch any more. Hope the race is better than this farce!

[MikeyT]

Stopped watching ages ago. Scalextric, but no-one comes off.

[davidd]

The point of one lap qualifying, locking the fuel load between qualifying and the race should make it more interesting. The teams have a couple of choices, run very light get a good grid position then pit very early or run heavy start at the back and try to make their way through.

I suspect the first few races will be very interesting, also bear in mind that as they now have limited time to work on the car and cannot change the engine etc that reliability might be an issue.

It's worth watching the first few races.

D.

[jondokic]

New brit driver = last place. What a surprise I'm glad I didn't buy any shares

[whatever]

davidd said: The point of one lap qualifying, locking the fuel load between qualifying and the race should make it more interesting. The teams have a couple of choices, run very light get a good grid position then pit very early or run heavy start at the back and try to make their way through.

I suspect the first few races will be very interesting, also bear in mind that as they now have limited time to work on the car and cannot change the engine etc that reliability might be an issue.

It's worth watching the first few races.

D.

They might have a couple of choices, but I'd guess all their simulation work would tell them which is going to be the quickest strategy. Then there'll be the usuall mid-table gamblers who do the opposite and hope for some other flukes to work it in their favour, but usually end up fading away after the first pit-stops.

As ever, the best races will be where something totally unexpected happens, or if it rains mid-race (or dries mid-race).

Perhaps they should have just fitted pop-up sprinklers?