I get that this is how it works, and that bump-day drama is part of the show, but come on now. A double-points event and a full-season entrant doesn't get to run? How about letting all the full-season drivers run and let the one-offs bump each other.
Yeah yeah, I know, that would make single-race sponsorship harder since there would be less likelihood of one-offs qualifying. But seriously, losing a big chunk of fan base because one of the most popular drivers in the series gets caught out by circumstances (including waiting on one of those one-offs to qualify)? That doesn't seem like a good plan for a series that is perennially worrying about growing its fan base to the previous glory-years levels.
Guess I'll cheer for Oriol Servia then...
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