The decision has finally been made to return to the same qualifying rules used from 2006 to 2015 on the back of a letter from all 11 teams to FIA president Jean Todt, Bernie Ecclestone & CVC Capital Partners.
While deciding to rule in favor of the change, Ecclestone wasn’t too happy about it, telling Autosport that “People seem to forget what we are trying to do, which is muddle the grid up a little bit because what we have seen doesn’t make for much excitement.”
“Lewis [Hamilton] has helped us a bit this season by not making good starts and having to come through the field, and Ferrari finally seems to have got his act together, so maybe things will change.”
The F1 supremo seems to think that unless they can come up with a new and radical qualifying format, the sport itself is going to suffer yet most fans would argue that qualifying isn’t the problem right now when it comes to Formula 1.
There was also a proposal for an aggregate qualifying system, which ran for six races at the start of the 2005 season before being ditched – though teams thankfully decided against attempting to work with such a system again.
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