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Originally Posted by JeremySmith
I don't remember anyone complaining about the qualifying system we had prior to this new idea ?
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I for one did not really like the system, because I advocate purity and simplicity. That is why I believe qualifying should be a forty-five or sixty minutes free-for-all session without any limitations regarding laps, tires and other consumables and a post-qualifying parc fermé. The qualifying format I advocate is a tweak to the one used prior 2003.
The 2015 qualifying format has become a necessity for ensuring on-track action, because the use of consumables - for example: tires, power units and transmissions - is severely limited. It should be said this was already the case before 2003, as tire usage was limited and qualifying laps were made a consumable - drivers were only allocated twelve of them.
Since 2003, Formula One changed the qualifying formats more often than it did before that in its entire history. But that is the logic result of addressing the wrong issues.