Third phase fuel burn to continueFIA President Max Mosley has ruled out modifying F1`s new `knockout` qualifying to make the top ten pole-run less complicated.
Although the 2006 system basically won a thumbs-up on debut in Bahrain, some critical voices moaned about the convoluted `fuel credit` concept, arguing that most of the final 20 minutes was about burning fuel with mediocre lap times.
Why not, Max - like the rest of the session - make it a low-fuel blast?
"It is more complicated," the Briton admitted, "but if we had let them have empty tanks, everyone would just wait in their garage saving engines.
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"You would have a flurry of activity at the end, but for the first ten minutes nothing much would happen. At least this way, they have to be on the track."
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