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(Motorsport-Total.com) – Is it necessary to change the qualifying format for Monza? This suggestion came up several times after yesterday’s qualifying in Italy after some strange scenes happened like last year. Because everyone was looking for the best wake, there was chaos, especially at the end of Q1.
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Sometimes things get really difficult at the Parabolica Focus
“It’s the same every year at Monza,” says Romain Grosjean, who is already concerned about the Bahrain Outer Circuit. “I don’t think we can do much unless they send us one by one.”
Carlos Sainz would be a huge fan of this idea, in general. Although he believes that the current format also works and is well received by the fans, the Spaniard is also open to new ideas and would see 2021 as a good time for some experiments.
Is an individual time trial an idea?
He would like the individual time trial: “I had fun watching the cars alone with the driver alone on the track, with the cameras pointed at you, which adds to the pressure.” He imagined doing something like this for the fastest five or ten riders.
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All the drivers wanted to hit the track at the same time and get a slide Focus
Lewis Hamilton seems to be less than enthusiastic about it: “I don’t know what to say about it. I don’t know if that would be good or not,” he shrugs. It has no problem with the current format, I only wish one thing: “I wish I had more laps. More tires and more laps. That would be nice.”
Mercedes didn’t have a problem with traffic on Saturday because you didn’t have to rely on the slide yourself. But at the end of the third training session, he almost reached a catastrophe: there the Briton ran into some competitors at low speed in front of the Parabolica. Only with an evasive maneuver across the meadow could he barely avoid a collision.
Hamilton: Drivers must get off the line
“That will always happen, unless you set new rules,” says the Briton. In fact, the FIA had responded with minimal time in the outlap, but in the end it still led to chaotic scenes because the drivers suddenly had to start their lap in a hurry to avoid receiving a penalty.
The Mercedes driver had a suggestion for the solution: “If you’re on a slow lap, get off the line. That’s safer, and if someone comes, you have a clear path,” Hamilton said. “But I don’t know if all the drivers can agree.”
But even that would cause problems on some routes, for example in Monaco. Hamilton would even go to the actual format. “We’ve had the same format for who knows how long. It gets a bit boring when we have the same thing every week.” However, it currently has no proposal for another format. “Ask the fans and find out what they want.”
