F1 must think carefully about shaking-up the qualifying format ... again.
Jaguar's Tony Purnell agrees that the sport, almost unanimous that the current back-to-back system is a failure, will probably adopt a new format by July.
'I never saw what was wrong with last year's system,' he told Motorsport News.
'But we can't get it wrong again.'
'People will think we don't know what we're doing.'
Bosses are presently 'thinking about and discussing' whether an hour made up of two 20-minute sessions with a 20-minute break should be enacted for Silverstone.
Drivers will do six laps per session, with grid position decided on aggregate.
'It may ... jumble up the grid a bit more,' a positive Purnell admitted.
McLaren chief Ron Dennis would like to see the system shaken-up in '04 because it would 'give us the possibility of [making] further changes' next season.
Written: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 01:43:59
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