System One will experiment with qualifying at two races this season, the primary prone to be Imola in Might, however double world champion Max Verstappen and different drivers see no want for change. The plan is to limit tyre alternative for the Saturday session so the primary part of qualifying will likely be exhausting compound tyres solely, the second mediums and the ultimate prime 10 shootout on the quickest softs. Drivers at the moment have a free alternative of tyre all through qualifying.
The transfer would cut back every driver’s allocation to 11 units of tyres from 13 for the weekend, lowering the quantity Pirelli make and transport.
The experiment has been confirmed by the governing FIA however the races have but to be confirmed by Pirelli, though groups have flagged up Italy’s Imola as the beginning of the European season.
“I hope it is not going to be chilly in Imola, in any other case it will be fairly difficult,” Crimson Bull’s pole-sitter Verstappen advised reporters on the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.
“It’s the identical for everybody however I do not suppose we have to truly do these sorts of issues in qualifying. I do not actually see the advantage of it.
“It is higher if we make it possible for all of the automobiles are shut to one another and extra aggressive as a substitute of spicing issues up in that approach, which I feel might be for the present.”
Staff mate Sergio Perez, second in qualifying on Saturday, agreed with the Dutch driver.
“We don’t really want to vary something,” he mentioned. “We’ll see as soon as we strive it however I do not suppose there is a want to vary one thing that’s working effectively.”
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, third on the grid, additionally felt there was no want for any tweaks.
This story has been printed from a wire company feed with out modifications to the textual content.