Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1.moderato
Titolo: [ENG] Max: We Could'Ve Been More Radical

Source: ITV-F1
http://www.itv-f1.com/news/news_story/13453
Click to enlargeMax Mosley has revealed that plans were afoot at last
month's F1 Commission meeting for an even more radical qualifying format.
The FIA President said that he floated the idea of awarding points for
qualifying and then reversing the grid slots so that the fastest cars
would have had to come through from the midfield. But the concept was
rejected in favour of the new one-lap shoot-out system.
Under Mosley's plan, points would have been awarded for the top eight in
qualifying and then the order of the top 10 cars on the grid would be
reversed so that the pole man starts in the midfield.
In an exclusive interview with ITV-F1, Mosley said: "If you really want
go see overtaking you would probably have to swap the grid round and one
of the things we considered quite seriously was - as well as giving
points to the first eight in the race - doing the same thing in
qualifying.
"But then having done that you would swap the fastest ten drivers round
for the race. So the man who was tenth would have no points but he would
be first on the grid while the man who had ten points in his pocket, of
course, would start tenth and he's got every prospect of coming through
the field.
"Then you would get overtaking and you would get real racing. The more
efficient your qualifying system the less likely you are to get
overtaking, in truth. Apart from making Friday and Saturday more
interesting what we have actually done is make the qualifying system a
less efficient means of determining which is the fastest car."
Mosley said the new shoot-out system was less radical but should at least
see one leading runner having to force his way up from the lower reaches
of the grid.
He said: "All that the new qualifying system will do for the race is that
it will make it more probable that one of the faster drivers will be
further back on the grid than you would expect - but only more probable.
"The complaint we hear most often is that people want to see more
wheel-to-wheel racing and overtaking. Clearly if you spend two days of a
race weekend finding out which car is fastest and you put him at the
front, that car is likely to drive away in the race. The more
professional and reliable things become, the more true that becomes."
To read more from Max click here
 
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 professional and reliable things become, the more true that becomes."
Beh, c'č da dire che in passato si faceva comunque cosě, ma c'erano piů
sorpassi e a parte casi strani, situazioni complessivamente piů
equilibrate. Il punto č che oggi la macchina veloce in qualifica č quasi
certamente la piů veloce anche in gara, visto che la gara č una somma di
run in condizioni non di qualifica, ma comunque piuttosto vicine, visto il
basso carico di carburante. In passato, quando non c'erano i rifornimenti,
una vettura poteva anche essere una bomba in qualifica, ma essere
disastrosa con il serbatoio pieno, mentre una indietro (relativamente)
sulla griglia poteva essere piů efficiente e meno stressante per le
gomme, e prevalere in gara.
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