dando
06-17-04, 09:49 PM
linky (http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?id=1824121)
"Essentially there's going to be only one official qualifying session," team owner Frank Williams said, "and that's split into two 25-minute sessions with a 10-minute gap in between. Each (driver) is allowed to do a total of six laps, allowed to use four sets of tires for that first 25 and the second 25 session. You must start the race on the tires on which you qualified. (Your) qualification time is based on the aggregate -- for the first time ever in F1 -- on the best lap of the first 25 minutes and the second 25 minutes."
With the current system there is all sorts of strategy involved with fuel loads because a driver must make his final qualifying run with enough fuel onboard the car to take it through to the first pit stop in the race.
With the new system, cars will qualify with as light a fuel load as possible and then fuel will be added before the race. This means that a team with a slower car will no longer be able to try a strategy of qualifying with a lighter fuel load in order to move further up the grid while balancing that starting position with the fact that they will have to pit earlier.
-Kevin
"Essentially there's going to be only one official qualifying session," team owner Frank Williams said, "and that's split into two 25-minute sessions with a 10-minute gap in between. Each (driver) is allowed to do a total of six laps, allowed to use four sets of tires for that first 25 and the second 25 session. You must start the race on the tires on which you qualified. (Your) qualification time is based on the aggregate -- for the first time ever in F1 -- on the best lap of the first 25 minutes and the second 25 minutes."
With the current system there is all sorts of strategy involved with fuel loads because a driver must make his final qualifying run with enough fuel onboard the car to take it through to the first pit stop in the race.
With the new system, cars will qualify with as light a fuel load as possible and then fuel will be added before the race. This means that a team with a slower car will no longer be able to try a strategy of qualifying with a lighter fuel load in order to move further up the grid while balancing that starting position with the fact that they will have to pit earlier.
-Kevin