The fate of Formula 1’s qualifying position remains covered in perplexity after bosses neglected to concur on a change for the following race in Bahrain. Teams chose at the season-opening race in Australia to jettison the new disposal framework and return to the one that had been set up for 2015.
In any case, when they met on Thursday to talk about conceivable choices, coming back to the old arrangement was not one of them. F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone says there will be more talks right on time one month from now.
The new arrangement, which saw drivers wiped out at regular intervals through three sessions of qualifying, came in for feedback in Melbourne a weekend ago. That is on the grounds that it prompted an unfilled track throughout the previous four minutes of the main eight shoot out as teams spared their tires instead of do another lap.
At a crisis meeting on Sunday, teams concurred collectively to return to the 2015 arrangement. This comprised of three knockout sessions, with the slowest cars just wiped out after every session had wrapped up. Be that as it may, this choice was not on the table when the F1 Commission at last met on Thursday.
Rather, teams were given two choices:
- To hold the guidelines utilized as a part of Melbourne that demonstrated so disliked;
- On the other hand stay with the disposal group for the initial two sessions of qualifying however with an additional moment’s length of time, trailed by a last qualifying session keep running as it had been in 2015.
As neither had been talked about by the teams ahead of time, understanding was not came to. The F1 Commission highlights Ecclestone and agents of the considerable number of teams, governing body the FIA, tire supplier Pirelli, backers and circuits.
To have the capacity to roll out a principle improvement amid a World Championship, unanimity is required. For this situation, that did not happen. The year began with the 2015 qualifying design set up, just for Ecclestone to choose he needed an adjustment with an end goal to flavor up the racing weekend. He gave the teams two alternatives:
- Embrace the new disposal position;
- On the other hand keep the 2015 course of action and have the main eight re-requested a while later, moving the quickest cars in reverse on the network.
They went for the disposal position, something Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff portrayed as the “minimum most noticeably bad choice”.
It stays to be seen what changes will be embraced – if any – after the Bahrain race, which happens on 3 April.
