Weekend Schedule & Qualifying Explaination

[Chaynes321]

The Race Weekend Schedule has been amended as follows:

FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
11.00-12.00 Free Practice 11.00-12.00 Free Practice 14.00 Race
14.00-15.00 Free Practice 14.00-15.00 Qualifying

(or at other times according to the relevant local schedule).

Revised Qualifying Format
• Cars are under Parc Ferme conditions throughout qualifying.
• Tyre specification must be made prior to qualifying rather than 08:00 on Saturday morning.
• Qualifying One begins at 14:00 for 15 minutes and all cars will be permitted on track for fifteen minutes and have no limit on laps. At the end of the session the five slowest cars are eliminated.
• The lap times of the remaining cars are deleted for the next session.
•Qualifying Two follows the same format as session one and takes place between 14:20 and 14:35.
• Qualifying Three, the last session, runs between 14:40 and 15:00 and the remaining ten grid positions are decided on the times in this session.
• During Qualifying One and Qualifying Two fuel may be added at any time and cars eliminated in these sessions will be free to refuel at any time until the pitlane opens for the race.
• Cars participating in Qualifying Three will be required to start the session with the amount of fuel they wish to start the race with.
• At the end of qualifying six cars will be chosen by the FIA at random to undergo further tests.

The Grid
• Last five positions will be the cars eliminated from the first qualifying session. The fastest will be in 16th position.
• The next five positions will be occupied by the cars eliminated in the second qualifying session, the fastest in 11th position.
• The top 10 positions will be filled with the cars which drove in Qualifying Three; the fastest will be on pole position.
• If two drivers set identical times in any of the three qualifying sessions priority will be given to the one who set it first.
• If one driver fails to set a time in any qualifying session they will be arranged in the following order.

any driver who attempted a flying lap.
any driver who failed to start a flying lap.
any driver who failed to leave the pits in this period.
• Any driver who incurs a penalty is placed behind the last car from Qualifying One.
• In the above cases if more than one driver falls into a single category they will be arranged on the grid in numerical order.

Tyre use and allocation
• No driver may use more than one specification of dry weather tyre after the start of the qualifying practice session.
• During the event no driver may use more than seven sets of dry weather tyres, four sets of wet weather tyres and three sets of extreme weather tyres.
• The restriction on tyres during the race is no longer in place.

Parc Ferme Conditions
• The car must be in parc ferme from the time it leaves the pit lane for the first time during qualifying until the green lights are on at the start on the formation lap.

• You are now allowed to:

start engines.
add fuel and a fuel breather.
wheels and tyres may be changed, rebalanced, and the pressure changed.
spark plugs may be removed.
heating devices fitted.
jump battery fitted.
tape added to body work.

[safc_fan89]

Shame it couldn't be simpler.

[Dutton]

Except if there are going to be 11 teams, whcih it seems there shall, then it is going to be dropping six cars at the first two cuts (as opposed to 5).

They will be arranged in numerical order given those circumstances? Hrrm, don't remember that. As in the car numbers? That seems a bit crap. You'd think they'd do it on the basis of laptimes.

[BootsOntheSide]

It will be done on laptimes - the car number only comes into play for cars which failed to set a time.

[Dutton]

Still, though, in that situation, I would rather it was done on the basis of their respective best times in practice sessions.

I guess there is just something about it coming down to car numbers that I don't like.

[coldtyre]

It's going to be a mess... impatient of watching that !

[Dutton]

Kinda weird phrasing coldtyre...do you mean it is going to be frustrating seeing it all go wrong?

I don't think anything will go very wrong. It really is not that complicated.

Whilst it is not by any stretch my ideal qualifying situation, IMHO it respresents a significant improvement on 1-lap.