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Analysis: Could F1 elimination qualifying face last-minute veto?

When teams voted unanimously last month to overhaul Formula 1's qualifying system with an elimination-style format, it seemed a formality that it would happen. But in F1 nothing is ever quite as simple as it first appears, and the tortuous route that the rule change has followed over recent days still may not be at an end. For while it appears that the FIA's World Motor Sport Council approved the idea for the qualifying tweak last week, a small detail of the regulation-wording needing to go back to the teams could yet be significant. And it is not impossible that a last-minute spanner is thrown into the works that derails the change for Melbourne. Ferrari opposition There were two...
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