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F1 bosses fail to reach deal on qualifying
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FORMULA One bosses met for 90 minutes in Manama, Bahrain, yesterday but were unable to reach agreement on a future format for qualifying.
Veteran commercial ring-master Bernie Ecclestone left the talks without any immediate comment after they were locked in stalemate over calls for a return to the previously successful structure after the failure of the new “elimination” system.
Mercedes motorsport chief Toto Wolff said that several options for the future had been proposed, but without gaining the necessary unanimous support. “We haven’t reached a conclusion on how we want to continue yet,” he explained. “We have agreed to discuss matters internally and then talk again next week.”
All the teams were represented at the meeting also attended by Ecclestone, the president of the ruling body, the International Motoring Federation, Jean Todt and tire supplier Pirelli.
The teams have agreed that they want to see a reversion to the previously successful qualifying as used until the end of last season, but there is opposition to this plan.
Saturday’s qualifying session, which was won by Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes, for yesterday’s Bahrain Grand Prix was run using the “new” progressive elimination qualifying system introduced without success at the season-opening Australian GP.
It produced another unsatisfactory session with long periods of inactivity. The teams again called for the system to be ditched and hoped this would be achieved yesterday.
Instead, all involved have agreed to talk again on Thursday after evaluating more complex proposals put forward by Todt. He and Ecclestone are reluctant to dump the new system.
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