[Soadiassy]

Bit undecided on this. A big part of me thinks it's unnecessary - if one of the big names gets unstuck then tough, people are always complaining that the grids aren't shaken up enough so this might be a way for it to happen without any silly artificial measures.

Now the part in the article that says "That would entail removing the frontrunners - who are all but guaranteed getting through Q1 – from the session entirely", it's a bit unfair maybe, but seeding qualifying has been done before in F1 at Monaco, in the late 50s, early 60s I believe, and NASCAR has their Top 35 rule too. I wouldn't have a HUGE problem with it providing it was done in a fair and transparent way, i.e. the top x drivers in the standings going into the Monaco race, rather than some arbitrary selection of the "big names" to give a free pass out of Q1.

I also appreciate this is an unprecedented situation of having this many cars with a performance gap in the current qualifying format (we've had more cars and slower cars in the past, but that was when it was an hour free for all on both Friday and Saturday)

But still, they are all grown men (even if only just in a few cases), and I say let them deal with it