What a shambles. What were they thinking?
After a confusing and frustrating debut to the new elimination-style Formula 1 qualifying, all the teams have – now livid – have shook hands to collectively oppose it and demand a revert back to 2015’s arrangement.
Toto Wolff, Mercedes-AMG Petronas team head honcho, with an interview with Autosport, said: "It needs to be ratified by the F1 Commission, but I would like to see who puts his hand up for yesterday's qualifying. It should be done in the next few days,"
Wolff added, “We are now back to something we understand, where we have regulations and not reinvent something new. ... We would look really silly if there was a new compromise for next week, and then again we didn't like it." File it in the folder titled "If it ain't broke, don't fix it.”
In case you missed it, Formula 1 has opened the 2016 season in Melbourne with some significant changes to the qualifying structure that primarily sees the introduction of a driver ‘elimination’.
While this is only one of the changes instituted into the latest F1 season to make it more in-race drama of an exciting spectacle, which also includes a wider exhaust for louder cars and a tighter restriction on driver-team radio communications, the tweaks to the qualifying session has been met uniformly negative from all fronts: drivers, teams, commentators, journalists, and fans.
Should it come to pass, and it should if the powers that be wants to gain back valuable viewership and interest in the series, the revert should be implemented as soon as the next race in Bahrain during the first weekend of April.
