Formula 1 bosses have failed to agree upon making changes to the current elimination-style qualifying format, despite discussing the matter during a 90-minute meeting on Sunday ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Team bosses met with FIA president Jean Todt, Bernie Ecclestone and Pirelli on Sunday morning in the hope of agreeing a way forward with qualifying.
The current elimination format has garnered fierce criticism from both within the paddock and outside, with almost unanimous support for a return to the former system used between 2006 and 2015.
In contrast, Ecclestone and Todt are refusing to simply revert back, believing qualifying needs a shake-up to avoid predictable results, and they have therefore blocked calls to drop the current format.
Instead it's believed the pair have tabled various proposals to tweak the current system, including more tyres for Q3, time ballast and aggregate laps, which would see a drivers two best laps added together to decide their grid position.
Whilst exact details of the meeting aren't yet known, Mercedes chief Toto Wolff confirmed no agreement had been reached, but a second meeting had been arranged for Thursday in the hope something can be agreed upon in time for the Chinese GP.
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