Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel has hit out at the latest proposal for qualifying, which would see aggregate times decide the grid if it gets the green light during a vote on Thursday.
Team bosses met with FIA president Jean Todt and commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone on Sunday to discuss ditching the current elimination-style format which, according to most, clearly hasn't worked as intended.
However the team bosses came up against stiff opposition from Todt and Ecclestone, both of which are against returning to the 2015 format used successfully for ten years. They instead proposed an aggregate system, which will be voted on later this week.
Vettel however is completely against the proposal which he described as "s**t" when speaking to Sky Sports.
"It's time to go to the circus," he said of the new format. "It's a good idea if you want random things to happen, but Formula 1 should be about racing. It's a s*** idea."
McLaren driver Jenson Button is however more open to the idea, but only because he believes it can only be better, not worse, that the current elimination system.
"We'll give it a go," he said. "It's all we can say. It's better than this one. I think everything's better than this one.
"I think drivers driving with their eyes closed would be better than this one."
How would aggregate qualifying work?
Q1, Q2 and Q3 would be retained, but the elimination element dropped. Instead, a driver would be required to complete at least two timed laps. Their fastest two times will be added together and then at the end of each session, the six or seven slowest drivers would not progress through to the next session. No drivers would drop out mid-session as currently is the case.
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