i liked the old quali format so i wouldn't mind going back to that.
but if they went back to it without changing the current tyre rules, you would see exactly what you are seeing now, with most of the cars in the pit most of the time.
i would like to see the current version (with slight modifications) without the tire limitations.
the other two ideas are a bit too gimmicky, in my opinion, and wouldn't change the race much, if at all.
A "pole championship" already exists in practice, even if it is not official, and the incentive to get pole is already high enough, since pole is the best predictor of a race win.
as far as the "king of overtake", i certainly hope i don't see cars dropping back on purpose just to pass cars over and over again. it would transform the races into travesties. besides, in general pilots are already doing what they can to overtake, if they don't is because they can't.
[doublepost=1459642254][/doublepost]just to expand on the points above.
the real problem is an intrinsic one to racing with qualifiers.
In the Perfect Racing World™, a properly run Qualification session, no matter what formula is used, puts the best car in the front.
In the Perfect Racing World™, having the best car in the front reduces the chances of an exciting race, because, obviously, the best car is faster and will win the race.
Rinse a repeat for second best, third best and so on.
Therefore, the Perfect Racing World™ is boring as hell.
Enter the gimmicks.
Anything and everything is done to mix things up and try to avoid boring precessionary races: DRS, purposedly short-lived tyres, mandatory tyre changes, tyre penalization of cars in front on the grid, refueling, messing around with Qualis,etc
the obvious solution to have more exciting races would be to eliminate qualis and have cars starting in reverse order of championship standings.
however i like qualis, and so does a lot of people, so they should be kept, and people should have all the incentive to go as fast as they can in them.
is there a way to have real qualis, but at the same time have a more interesting grid.
or:
can we have our cake, and eat it too?
yes.
combine reverse championship standing and real qualifiers to determine the starting grid.
there are 22 cars.
the position in the grid is calculated by adding the result in the Qualis to the reversed position in the championship
the car with the lowest total starts first, the car with highest total starts last. if there is a tie in the total, Quali results count.
this way, you never have the best cars starting in pole, but you still would have an incentive for them to do as good as possible in qualifiers
here is how it would have worked work today:
today's qualis
1.hamilton, 2.rosberg, 3.vettel, 4.raikkonen, 5.ricciardo, 6. bottas, 7.massa, 8. hulkenberg, 9.grosjean, 10.verstappen, 11.sainz, 12.vandoorne, 13.gutierrez, 14.button, 15.kvyat, 16.werlhein, 17.ericsson, 18.perez, 19.magnussen, 20.palmer,
21. haryanto, 22.nasr
current championship ranking:
1. rosberg(22), 2.hamilton(21), 3. vettel(20), 4.ricciardo(19), 5. massa(18), 6.grosjean(17), 7.hulkenberg(16), 8.bottas(15) 9.sainz(14), 10. verstappen(13), 11. everyone else(12)
grid:
1.raikkonen (4+12=16), 2.bottas (6+15=21), 3.hamilton (1+21=22), 4.vettel (3+20=23), 5.verstappen (10+13=23), 6.rosberg (2+22=24), 7.ricciardo (5+19=24), 8.hulkenberg (8+16=24), 9.vanddorne (12+12=24), 10.massa (7+18=25), 11.sainz (11+14=25), 12.gutierrez (13+12=25), 13.grosjean (9+17=26), 14.button(14+12=26), 15.kvyat (15+12=27),
16.werlhein (16+12=28), 17.ericsson (17+12=29), 18.perez (18+12=30), 19.magnussen (19+12=31), 20.palmer (20+12=32), 21. haryanto (21+12=33), 22.nasr (22+12=34)
basically you would have a more interesting race, because the two best cars start 3rd and 6th, without compromizing qualifiers (in fact, doing well in qualis becomes even more important for the championship contenders)
