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RaceFans Round-up: Bring back one-lap qualifying - Alonso

Sábado 11 de Junio del 2022

RaceFans Round-up: Bring back one-lap qualifying - Alonso

In the RaceFans Round-up: Bring back one-lap qualifying - Alonso • Stewards urge rule rethink • Boschung penalised for crash which delayed qualifying

In the RaceFans Round-up: Bring back one-lap qualifying - Alonso • Stewards urge rule rethink • Boschung penalised for crash which delayed qualifying

In the round-up: Fernando Alonso says that the old one-shot qualifying system used between 2003 and 2005 was ‘good for drivers’

In brief

One-shot qualifying was ‘good for drivers’ unlike current system, says Alonso

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Alonso says F1’s former one-lap qualifying system was ‘good for drivers’ compared to the current three-stage knockout system.

Alonso raced with the system between 2003 and 2005 where each driver was given one flying lap on a clear track to set a lap time and determine their grid position.

Asked if he felt restarting Q1 in Baku yesterday with two-and-a-half minutes remaining after a red flag made the end of the session too much of a lottery, Alonso said “yeah, it is a lottery.

“The old format that we all had a ‘Super Pole’ – one lap alone on track – maybe that was good for TV and it was good for us as well. At the moment there is too much interaction with other cars, with tows, with traffic, with yellow flags – and this is not the best.”

  • Alonso dismisses Albon’s claim he ‘drove slowly on purpose’ to delay rivals in Q1

Stewards call for rules rethink after Haas investigation

Pit lane, Baku Street Circuit, 2022
Both Haas drivers were cleared over the Q1 incident
The FIA stewards have recommended a rethink of Formula 1’s regulations governing the pit lane exit after both Haas drivers were investigated, then cleared, over violations during qualifying.

Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher were investigated for failing to leave the pits in the correct order. The pair merged into the queue of cars which was waiting at the exit when Q1 restarted with two-and-a-half minutes remaining. This potentially put them in breach of rules which require drivers to leave the pits in the order which they arrived at the exit.

However the stewards noted that because the Haas pit was adjacent to the exit, and the queue had formed before their drivers were sent from their garages, “it would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the team to determine which order the cars should depart.”

This is not the first time such a confusion has arisen, the stewards noted, and requested the rule be reviewed. “The stewards recommend that this particular regulation be examined, as this case is almost identical to that involving Williams Racing in Mexico 2021, where no further action was taken.”

Boschung penalised for crash which delayed F1 qualifying

Ralph Boschung was given a three-place grid penalty for causing a crash at the end of Saturday’s Formula 2 sprint race. The stewards ruled he failed to leave enough room for Calan Williams on his outside at turn one, forcing him into a barrier, after which he was hit by other cars.

“The stewards determined that car 21 [Williams] was entitled to a minimum of a car width at the exit and as car 15 [Boschung] did not leave this space is judged to be wholly at fault for the incident.” Boschung was also given a penalty point on his licence, putting him on a total of four.

The repair work arising from the crash delayed the start of F1’s final practice session by 15 minutes, causing a corresponding delay to the later qualifying session.

Grid penalty for Herta

Colton Herta will be relegated six places on the grid for today’s IndyCar Grand Prix of Road America for an unapproved engine change. The Andretti driver will fall from fifth to 11th on the grid, promoting Patricio O’Ward, Romain Grosjean, Felix Rosenqvist, Scott McLaughlin, Scott Dixon and Simon Pagenaud.

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Comment of the day

With George Russell warning that F1 is risking a major accident due to how much new cars bounce over bumps, @robbie believes there is a lot for the teams to discover with the new technical regulations.

It’s early days and it is up to teams to figure this out. And as they do they’re still way better off than having clean air dependent cars. This change was badly needed and there is much development that will come yet. Once the teams that are struggling can adapt some of the ideas Ferrari and Red Bull got right from the get-go there will be a convergence of performance and much less porpoising. RBR has shown you can have an insignificant amount of it and be in championship level form.

But the difference to now and last year is that now all the teams can see what the others had on their drawing board back when this was all much more of an unknown between teams, and there was great surprise and delight at all the different iterations, the different takes each team had on interpreting the regs at pre-season time. Stability in the regs for next year should start to make the cars look more similar and have less and less porpoising.
Robbie

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