News Details

Silly qualifying format is now officially dead and buried

FIA have confirmed that the universally unpopular musical chairs style qualifying introduced at the 2016 season opening Australian Grand Prix is now officially dead and buried after a mere two races. The FIA released the following statement: 'The World Motor Sport Council today approved, via e-vote, the decision to revert to last season’s qualification format for the remainder of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship.' 'The format, where the slowest six cars are eliminated at the end of the first two qualifying sessions before a final ten-car shootout for Pole in Q3, will return for this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix.' Related News Prost hopes new qualifying format will not happen...
Full Story »
9y ago from GrandPrix247.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

FIA agrees on F1 reverting back to 2015 qualifying...

Faced with a wall of resistance, motorsport's governing body has...
9y ago from F1Pulse.com

FIA formally approves qualifying change

– Formula 1's return to the 2015 qualifying format has been...
9y ago from GPUpdate.net

FIA officially approves return of 2015 qualifying

The FIA's World Motor Sport Council has today officially today approved,...
9y ago from Pitpass.com

F1 gets confirmation of qualifying format change

The World Motor Sport Council has given Formula 1 confirmation to revert...
9y ago from Crash.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Pedro Acosta: Marc Marquez 2025 title ‘the...

Pedro Acosta believes Marc Marquez's 2025 MotoGP title triumph is the...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Mick Schumacher set for IndyCar test with RLL

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing has announced that it will bring in Mick...

Andretti hires ex-Penske director Ron Ruzewski as...

Andretti Global announced on Wednesday that it has hired Ron Ruzewski as...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Hyundai WRT on the attack

Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team is not taking their 2025 drubbing at...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Tactics Column: Two 10s blueprint as Arsenal dominate...

For all the talk of penalties not given, towels borrowed without...
1h ago from Arseblog.com

“You are a monster” - Arsenal duo Declan Rice and...

Arsenal's Declan Rice and Mikel Merino have lavished praise on Gabriel...
5h ago from SportsKeeda.com

“I can’t believe he’s not in the team” - Rio...

Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand has questioned Arsenal manager...
18m ago from SportsKeeda.com

“They are the team that everyone’s going to...

Rio Ferdinand has named reigning champions Liverpool ahead of Arsenal as...
18m ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.