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The British Superbike Championship is to introduce a new qualifying format in the round at Cadwell Park over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

Grid positions are currently decided in a single 50-minute qualifying session.

The new format will have three shorter sessions with the slowest riders being eliminated before the top 10 battle for pole position in the final session.

BSB organisers hope it will mean fewer spells when there is no action on track, particularly in bad weather.


Oh forgot to mention ..Im going
if you want to go to any BSB race this is the one to go to ,the riders favourite track and probably the best for viewing as well
22 quid in advance 28 quid on the day

http://www.motorsportvision.co.uk/cadwe ... l-park.asp

sounds the same as the new f1 format?

does sound similar.

What you reckon about having F1 having weight penalties for success - a bit like in Touring Cars (assuming it still is done there?).

So at the next race, a weight penalty is adding in based on the previous races results to make it a little more even? Allow the minnow teams a better shot at a decent place in the race and a good mix.
I reckon it would be pretty good, even if they only added the weight for Quali and next took it away for the race - that would make for some entertaining overtaking at the first part of a race

how about having it the same as gp2, where the cars are the same !

sounds too simple?

giving the car some kind of penalty for success would be artificial, but bring some closeness back across the whole field - for many years it has been a one-team season - sometimes Ferrari, sometimes Williams, sometimes McLaren and before that, other now defunct teams that dominated, which can be boring as the only question used to be which one of the two drivers in the team would win.

Having one car that would kill F1 IMO as there would be only one manufacturer for the whole formula, compared to what? 6 big ones now? Mercedes, BMW, Renault, Ferrari, Honda, Toyota, then you got the chassis varients.
Having one car design across the entire field would wipe out 100+ years of the Top Formula tradition and take it down to just the driver - and F1 is a man+machine sport.

F1 has gone this way a little with defining a lot of the parameters for areodynamics and there are things like the common ECU that all cars have to use (designed and built by McLaren :) ) - and of course the single tyre maker.
this does seem to be working well though this season, with 3 teams fighting it out, but you never see the next rung ever really getting there unless the weather goes weird.