Formula One boss says software for new format won’t be ready for opener
Formula One’s new musical chairs-styled qualifying format has hit a roadblock.
Bernie Ecclestone says that Formula One Management’s software team does not have time to prepare the system for the Melbourne season opener scheduled for March 20.
“The new qualifying won’t happen because we can’t get everything together in time,” the F1 boss said in an article in The Independent of London.
“It was going to come in at the start of this year, but we are not going to be able to get all the software done in time. So the qualifying changes will probably be in Spain,” Ecclestone said. “In Australia, it will be the old qualifying. All of the software has got to be written, so it’s not easy.”
The new format is based on the existing knockout qualifying system, but with a car eliminated every 90 seconds instead of in a group at the end of the three segments.
Ecclestone admitted he actually wanted a more radical shake-up for 2016, involving reversing the grids.
“I wanted a very simple thing,” he said. “I wanted qualifying to stay as it is, because it is good, and then if a guy is on pole and has won the last race, he gets so many seconds added to his time so he has to fight through the bloody pack to get in the lead, which he would do in the end.”
Amid F1’s democratic processes, Ecclestone said he is frustrated the teams are not more supportive of his moves to spice up the racing.
“There are a million things they could do, but they are completely mad,” he said. “We can’t do it alone because to get the things voted through, it has to go through the commissions and then we have got the teams all deciding.”
Ecclestone puts brakes on new F1 qualifying format for Australia
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