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Crash, allowing Alonso to win
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Whaf at we have now is fundamentally great, it’s the penalties that fuck it over. Anything “engine” should be penalised through constructor points, not grid slots.
There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with the current qualifying system though. I get the feeling that they’re trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist, rather than tackling the crunchier one of why it’s no longer possible for any team outside the three big spenders to bag a decent grid slot on merit.
Simples!
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On top of that, I can already envisage the unedifying spectacle of all the cars running from 11th and lower engaging in a race to the bottom after the last pit stop in order to secure a good grid slot for the next race.
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Points for qualifying is an interesting idea; IMO it would need to be kept to a low level to avoid devaluing the race. Additionally, the top teams will (on balance) always qualify well, so it’s a double bonus for them.
Best approach would be to ditch the engine and gearbox penalties and therefore grid penalties. I’m extremely doubtful that this regulation results in any significant cost saving.
I would apply it to the Constructors Championship. Two ideas are bouncing around my head.
Let's say that points are achieved for the fastest team time set by either driver. So if Mercedes are 1 and 2, Driver 1's time means Mercedes gets 25 CC points. Ferrari are 3 and 5 so get 2nd place points. Red Bull 4 and 6 so get 3rd place points. The fun lower down the grid might come with teams who know they're going to be arse in the main race so go with a setup for qualifying that boosts up their CC points and then they hope that the race might just go their way.
It would be a bit fiddly though so I'm liking idea 2 more and it's ripping off the Blancpain GT method for the longer races. In events where a car is driven by three drivers in the race, they have three qualifying sessions and use an aggregate of the driver's times. In F1 you could do the same. The team with the best aggregate gets 25 points, team with 2nd best gets 18 points and so on.
If a driver crashes out before setting a time or has a mechanical issue and sets no time, then you simply use the other driver's time multiplied by 1.25. If both fail to set a time then they get laughed at it in the paddock and Johnny Herbert gets to go up to them and say "Boys, that was shit".
eg. Hamilton drives a 1:20 lap. Bottas crashes before he sets a time and his time is recorded as 1:40, thus giving an aggregate Mercedes time of 1:30. Bottas then starts at the back of the grid by virtue of not setting a time.
What about the wretched engine and part change penalties? I hate them because drivers are penalised for elements out of their control. It's truly shite. So here I reckon you could use the same 1.25 multiplier.
Let's use Hamilton and Bottas again. Hammy gets his 1:20 lap and qualifies 1st. Bottas has a gearbox change and sets a 1:20 as well to finish second fastest.
Because Bottas had a parts change, he is treated as if he crashed and so the overall aggregate time is 1.20 + 1.40 = 1.30. Mercedes are effectively punished for the parts change as a team by having a reduced number of CC points from this session.
The actual time that Bottas set is treated as his qualifying time so he qualifies second rather than being punished with grid place penalties.
Obviously this is a rough idea but I think it could be worked out quite well. It'd push both the individual performance aspect and the team aspect.
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