fNUMBER_TOKEN has with some regularity changed up the program be it with modifications to the rules the structure of the weekend resource allowances or the very nature of events themselves formula one is not a sport that has ever stayed static and on the whole this has been a good thing whereas in say football where a lot of the variables have remained pretty much the same just the set number of humans kicking a polyhedron around a rectangle very nature of formula one shifts significantly with evolution in technology economics business and its impact beyond the racetrack as such the sporting masters must regularly confront the very meaning of fNUMBER_TOKEN what do we want it to be what are the meaningful parts of fNUMBER_TOKEN what do we need to keep and what needs changing what path do we want to send fNUMBER_TOKEN on over the next handful of years as fNUMBER_TOKEN is changing constantly anyway with research and the progression of both technology and the nature of operating such large operations it's easy for the sport to have these moments of self-reflection and interfere with its own evolution but while fNUMBER_TOKEN has introduced changes and modifications fairly often what it has rarely done until quite recently is experiment the most obvious example to consider is sprint qualifying fNUMBER_TOKEN didn't just change the entire format of the weekend across all of NUMBER_TOKEN as it has done many times before instead they introduced it as a trial across the british italian and brazilian grand prix so they could see how it went this itself is quite radical for the sport and it was actually quite restrained in its application all three weekend formats were identical they didn't try different versions of the sprint to see which mic worked best they barely gave points for success just three two and one for the top three and they didn't dare do any kind of reverse grit shenanigans between quali the sprint or the race lest they'd be accused of meddling too hard or punishing success for the sake of entertainment and this despite a healthy reverse grid format working for many years in formulas two and one across their weekends there was a tentativeness with messing with the purity of an fNUMBER_TOKEN weekend this itself put effNUMBER_TOKEN into a bit of a bind with regards to the pole sitter title would it be more messy to give it to the winner of friday qualifying which would match the current feel for what the poll winner is even if that person wouldn't sit on pole come sunday or give it to the winner of the sprint despite them not necessarily doing the best hot lap in a quality scenario a bit of an expectation for the pole position record in reality the record of pole position holder always goes to the driver who sits on pole come the start of the race regardless of any qualifying that might have gone on penalties have seen a fair few quali winners denied pole position but this felt even more of a disconnect than usual as it's played out so fast print qualifying has had a tepid reception with only a very slight favor towards it among fans according to this year's global fan survey and they definitely don't want to see it at every race but what's important is that fans competitors and the fNUMBER_TOKEN overlords got to see how this would all play out in reality and make decisions of what happened using real world data fNUMBER_TOKEN has twice in the last two decades introduced quality systems that fell on their faces immediately one was aggregate qualifying in NUMBER_TOKEN where a single lap quality was run on saturday and sunday with the times from both added together this really
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