F1 2016 (Bound to contain spoilers!)

I doubt Halo would have saved Bianchi, not stopped Massa getting his head stoved in.

It might have saved Justin Wilson, but he wasn’t in an F1 car; Indy car aren’t getting them.

And drivers still get killed and seriously injured at Le Mans, so I’m nt sure of the benefit vs the downside in lack of visibility

Slight deviation but am I the only one who missed Jon Surtees getting a CBE in the new year honours? How has it taken me three months to notice?

Who’s up then?

Nice to see Ferrari so close in FP3.

Roseburg seems nervous

this qualifying is nuts

They’re like headless chickens! Liking it!

impressive lap from Hamilton on oldish rubber

Well the qualifying I’d actually interesting 🙂 Q2 should be a bit more fun, wondering if someone is going to get caught out. But surprised to see Mclaren up there.

merc have just turned up the wick 😯

dafuq!

Double…
😯
😯

And Ferrari have used most of their tokens too.

Brundle having a chunter.

he’s not happy

Alono’s toys being thrown around the paddock right now!

doesn’t look like there’s any chance of mchonda getting a podium this year either.

Brundle is annoying me now – the ‘pure’ qualifying now comes in Q3.

rosebergs car is very smokey

blimey orielly

Red Bull don’t seem to have got the memo about this new format.

ferrari waving the white flag already 😯

OK – so Brundle may be right!

Elimination works for Q1 and Q2, but certainly not in Q3.

Well that went well. Lots of garage action.

Going to mix it up a bit on the longer laps but q3 was just a bit of a limp finish. I guess if you know that was your lap then save the tyres.

great last 3 minutes of qualifying 🙂

Utter farce, even the teams didn’t have a clue what was going on.

that was a disaster !

Good grief – for all of F1s safety messages they drive around with Lewis sitting out of a car window!

Q1 and Q2 could sort of work, but instead of the mid pack flurry of activity with all cars trying to keep out of the elimination zone, it’s an ever decreasing number of cars in that flurry. On those tracks where all times are much closer anyway (where even the Mercs go out for an extra run to cover themselves) that’ll make the excitement less.
So all that’s happened is the top 4 guys doing their banker on super-soft instead of medium.

Q3 should be 8 cars, same format as it used to be, then just reduce the time to enough to do say 3 flying laps, plus enough margin to let all cars get out, but not enough for them to come in for a 2nd set of tyres.

The old style qualy used to build to a peak coming down to the last few seconds.

We now have shots of them getting weighed when there was 3 minutes left.

Utter garbage

Anyone else finding the C4 coverage a bit cringeworthy?

In best Simpson’s Comic book seller voice:

“Worst Qualifying Format………..EVER”

Utter Rubbish

I’m so confused!

Anyone else finding the C4 coverage a bit cringeworthy?

Yes me. Worse than ITV and that’s saying something. Steve Jones looks out of his depth – thank god DC is there.
The whole thing is utter crap so far.

Formula 1 set to abandon new qualifying after Australian Grand Prix – http://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/35850766

It’s not going well.

Well on the bright side – gives us our Saturdays back for riding as there is no point watching qually

I thought Steve Jones did a really good job. Mark Webber was a bit rabbit in the headlights, but it’s early doors….

And yes, the new format doesn’t work. They need to change it back for Q3 at the very least

In other news I’m looking forward to Sainz or Verstappen bagging their first podium some time this season…

Lame

I wish they’d just go back to the old 12 lap rule. It’s qualifying ffs, stop trying to make it something it’s not! Given that the races tend to be so dull, they’d be better toning down quali to make Sunday’s seem better

Used to like qualifying…

Didn’t think C4 did too bad a job really.