May 4 (GMM) F1's driver union, the GPDA, will meet with team managers in Barcelona next week to air their displeasure with the 'knockout' qualifying system.
The new format has received a near-unanimous thumbs-up since it debuted in 2006, except for the final portion, which sees top-ten drivers cruise around at modest speeds burning fuel for most of the twenty minutes.
Earlier suggestions of the need for a minor tweak to the system appear to have died down.
So David Coulthard, a director of the drivers' body, told ITV: ''Michael (Schumacher) and I ... will meet ... to discuss why we as drivers would like it to be modified.''
Any change would require the agreement of every team boss in pitlane.
Observers claim that the 'fuel-burn' concept is not only unexciting for the spectators, but - particularly with the price of petrol at record highs - also wasteful.
Red Bull's Coulthard, 35, agreed that it is also 'environmentally unfriendly'. He added: ''It's not qualifying when everybody burns off fuel until the last lap.''
Written: Thu, 04 May 2006 13:49:22
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