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New qualifying format for 2005
2004-10-26 - By Philip Byrne
The FIA issued a bulletin at the weekend outlining changes to the qualifying format to come into use as of the start of the 2005 Formula 1 World Championship.
There will still be two sessions, but the main difference is that one session will take place on Saturday from 13h00 to 14h00, with the second on Sunday morning, from 10 to 11. The biggest change is that the grid positions will be decided by aggregating a driver’s times from both sessions, with the lowest aggregate obviously taking pole. A further change concerns the running order for the first session. Instead of running the cars in the order in which they finished the previous grand prix, with the winner going first, the order from the previous race will be reversed, so the complete opposite of this year’s system.
Fuel loads will be free for Saturday’s session. The cars will then go into parc ferme after the first session, but refuelling will be allowed prior to the second session. As is the case at the moment, there will be no refuelling permitted between the end of the second session and the start of the race, so that they will qualify with their initial race fuel load on board.
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