Really not understanding this sprint qualifying at all. Coupled with the regular qualifying yesterday this is literally just the race itself but with a break after 17 laps. Be exactly the same if the regular raced red flagged and restarted from the grid. Pointless.
When I first heard about sprint qualifying I'm sure they were floating the grid for it being a reverse of the drivers standings, which would kind of make sense. Doing regular qualifying then this is pointless.
(07-17-2021, 03:54 PM)Roger H. Sterling Wrote: When I first heard about sprint qualifying I'm sure they were floating the grid for it being a reverse of the drivers standings, which would kind of make sense. Doing regular qualifying then this is pointless.
You'd just get people sandbagging and Merc/Red Bull would be dead against it.
These guys create traffic jams and endanger each other to get a tow in qualifying, I don't think we can say with any confidence that they wouldn't just go round round track at 2mph for 17 laps
07-17-2021, 04:21 PM (Edited 07-17-2021, 04:22 PM by Hung S.J..)
(07-17-2021, 04:01 PM)JohnjoL20 Wrote: You'd just get people sandbagging and Merc/Red Bull would be dead against it.
These guys create traffic jams and endanger each other to get a tow in qualifying, I don't think we can say with any confidence that they wouldn't just go round round track at 2mph for 17 laps
This is about maximising ticket sales over a three day weekend and increasing tv rights sales by having two races over two races, even more so as F1 predicts a move to streaming platforms. When they sell rights to Amazon etc.. then they can be sure people will purchase both Saturday and Sunday streams.
If Merc and Red Bull moan it will only be as part of a negotiation to ensure this is done on the most favourable terms for the leading teams and to extract as much compensation as possible from the FIA when cars crash out in the sprint qualifying. The more they compensate the crashes the more risks the teams will take. This is a commercial venture by Liberty and the teams will eventually fall in line if it is popular with fans/audience and by extentions tv companies/streaming platforms.
Good thing though is that drivers will always have driver instincts and will always go for a gap if they think they can make it.
That was on the cards like, the way they were racing through the first couple corners you could see one or both of them were going off. Glad he's alright but that's what F1 is all about, proper racing and crashes
(07-18-2021, 02:24 PM)Charlie Kelly Wrote: That was on the cards like, the way they were racing through the first couple corners you could see one or both of them were going off. Glad he's alright but that's what F1 is all about, proper racing and crashes