The eventual fate of Formula 1’s qualifying position remains covered in disarray after managers neglected to concur on a change for the following race in Bahrain.
Groups chose at the season-opening race in Australia to dump the new end framework and return to the one that had been set up for 2015.
However, when they met on Thursday to examine conceivable choices, coming back to the old arrangement was not one of them.
F1 manager Bernie Ecclestone says there will be more talks right on time one month from now.
The new configuration, which saw drivers killed at regular intervals through three sessions of qualifying, came in for feedback in Melbourne a weekend ago.
That is on account of it prompted a vacant track throughout the previous four minutes of the top-eight shootout as groups spared their tyres as opposed to doing another lap.
At a crisis meeting on Sunday, groups concurred consistently to return to the 2015 organization.
This comprised of three knockout sessions, with the slowest autos just dispensed with after every session had wrapped up.
In any case, this alternative was not on the table when the F1 Commission at long last met on Thursday.
Rather, groups were given two choices:
- To hold the tenets utilized as a part of Melbourne that demonstrated so disagreeable;
- Then again stay with the end position for the initial two sessions of qualifying however with an additional moment’s length of time, trailed by the last qualifying session keep running as it had been in 2015.
As neither had been examined by the groups ahead of time, an agreement was not come to.
The F1 Commission highlights Ecclestone and agents of the considerable number of groups, overseeing body the FIA, tire supplier Pirelli, patrons and circuits.
To have the capacity to roll out a rule improvement amid a World Championship, unanimity is required. For this situation, that did not happen.
The year began with the 2015 qualifying group set up, just for Ecclestone to choose he needed an adjustment with an end goal to zest up the hustling weekend.
He gave the groups two alternatives:
- Embrace the new disposal position;
- On the other hand, keep the 2015 course of action and have the main eight re-requested subsequently, moving the quickest autos in reverse on the framework.
They went for the disposal group, something Mercedes F1 supervisor Toto Wolff depicted as the “least worst opinion”.
It stays to be seen what changes will be embraced – if any – after the Bahrain race, which happens on 3 April.
