Steiner: New qualifying format would favour big teams
F1 News
- Jake Williams-Smith
Haas F1 team principal Gunther Steiner believes that a new qualifying format would only benefit the big teams of Formula 1.
Rumours have been circulating that F1 could be set to change qualifying once again. The new change would see an additional Q4 session added with the aim of having more cars on track during the hour-long qualifying session.
Despite the positive intention, the Haas boss argues that the additional session added on to the existing format would take away the jeopardy the bigger teams sometimes face when experiencing a difficult qualifying.
"The idea of shorter sessions where people can look stupid is not bad, but it needs to be studied further so that we do not make the gap between the top and the rest larger instead of smaller," he is quoted by Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet.
"It could mean the three big teams get an advantage rather than it mixing everything up a bit more,"
"We just need to be sure that we are not doing it wrong, because the current qualification system is not bad. It works. If it's not broken, why try to fix it?"