Disgraceful

[crayzayjay]

Prepare yourself for an horrific prospect. Bernie Ecclestone, whom I will suitably refer to as ignoramus in this post, has stated his desire to see more changes made to the current F1 qualifying system. Why? Not because it’s boring, which it really really is, but in order to make the starting grid of the race even more unpredictable. Ignoramus said “I would like to see the 10 fastest men in qualifying drawn by lottery (that’s right folks, lottery!) for the grid. You would have a different grid (no shit, ignoramus), and all the guys in the top 10 would have a chance of being on pole.”

Wow Bernie, what a lovely idea! That way, some loser down in tenth has the chance to start the race in pole and mess up everyone’s race behind him! And the guy who raced his ass off to qualify first will start tenth. But that’s ok, Bernie, after all, sport isn’t about who earns success and deserves to win, its about giving inferior competition an unfair, unjustified advantage! I have other ideas for this wonderful new F1. Gee Bernie, I mean ignor, I hope you’re reading this, I think these are right down your alley.

OK, a ball is drawn lotto-style, by you of course, Bernie, because we love you - numbers ranging from 1 to 20 - and the number that comes up is the place the driver has to finish to win maximum points in that race! Everyone else gets nul points, and the person who finishes first gets minus ten points, and then dumped in a bucket of goo after the race! Isnt that thrilling! They'll be going in reverse! Oh how we’ll laugh! Oh, and another thing, after the race, a random spectator is selected from the crowd, and he – actually no wait, she, lets think about the spectacle, most F1 fans are male, so it must be a she - she must have big breasts, at least D-cup, so they must be measured live on TV to we can check she’s not cheating – so anyway, this woman, who has to get her tits out for Bernie to measure, must then decide whether the winning driver, i.e the one who finished in the lotto ball position is allowed to keep his points, based on whether or not she fancies any other driver on the grid more than him. If she does, her preferred driver will get the points! At least this way we'll have good looking F1 champions, real pin-ups for teenage girls! And you know what that means, Bernie, more media money! Regardless of the money, I think this new approach towards competing should be spread to other sports. In fact, I’d like a team of chimpanzees to play in the next World Cup, Bernie, if you could do anything about that it would be great, I mean, why shouldn’t chimps be allowed to play, they got arms and legs too, so let’s give ‘em a chance!

If you don’t get the hint, Bernie, you’re a f*cking idiot and a disgrace to F1

[Veyron]

That idea coming from Ignor doesn't surprise me, he's a senile eccentric who lives on martini's and Viagra, so all his blood stays in areas other than his brain!
One thing to remember, never has there been an F1 rule written in stone and this qualifying procedure will also pass. I think next year it will revert back to a similar form of what it was in the previous years. One thing they have to fix is keeping all the teams from waiting til the last few minutes to hit the track. Thirty minutes or more of waiting on something to happen is not good for TV, this was the main rub with the old style. I think they will work this out to keep it interesting for an hour, keep the important TV money flowing, and we get to keep watching qualifying. Everybody wins in that scenario.
As for the lottery, I think he is sober enough to realize that would be a death nail. There are three ideas being kicked around which are more feasible.

[freakray]

A lottery to select who gets pole position, holy frigging hell where did he come with that?
What's next, they decide which team you drive for next season, and when you can pit is selected by lottery.

Maybe we should have a lottery to select a new governing board for F1, that would make more sense, lets get somebody in charge who cares about the sport!!!

[Guido]

Oh well, Ignoramus is also known for his excentric, crazy ideas. What he's probably trying to say is that they should get together again and discuss this years quali rule again... Remember all the wild ideas formulated right before the start of this season. The soup is never eaten as hot as it's served, right?

Anyway, they should use the quali format that they use in Germans DTM. Regular qualifying with 1 flying lap - just like this years F-1. But after that, there is a quali shoot-out of the best 10. Meaning the best 10 get another chance to improve their position on the grid. That's a cool format.

[vectorclub]

The more Bernie Ecclestone changes the rules, the more F-1 becomes like a NASCAR or a Saturday night sprint car race. I wish the manufactures would go through with their threat and start their own F-1 series.

F-1 needs a leadership change in the worst way.

[crayzayjay]

The DTM idea’s better than what we currently have, but I really would like to go back to a process that’s at least close to the old one, if not the same but with a few modifications. I personally didn’t mind that few cars went out in the first half hour, it just added to the tension and very frequently led to “will X driver have time to put in a final lap” and that for me was exciting, watching someone leave his lap to the last possible time and snatch pole. But I accept that many people did get annoyed that no one went out until the end of the session, so perhaps drivers should have a set number of laps (12) as they did before, and they must go out at least once each 20 minutes... something that ensures there are cars on the track. The new process really is bad, its so boring in fact I don’t know one person who enjoys it, the least they could do is let us know how much fuel the cars are carrying… but anyway, that’s my idea (not really an idea so much of an improvisation), just off the top of my head… if you guys have any suggestions it would be nice to hear them… Veyron you said there were three proposals in circulation?

[rcmaxx]

lol, they might as well hand out victories.....lol Schumi wins in Germany, Rubens can win in Brasil. Then you here mark webber scream like......."I got Australia!"

LOL

[crayzayjay]

still waiting for those 3 proposals veyron