Claire Williams thinks F1 has learned from the ‘musical chairs’ qualifying debacle.<\/p>\n
F1’s governing body announced late on Monday that the World Motor Sport Council rubber-stamped by ‘e-vote’ the decision to revert to the 2015 format ahead of this weekend’s Chinese grand prix.<\/p>\n
Williams, the Grove team’s deputy, suggested the episode has been both good and bad for the sport.<\/p>\n
“You don’t want to play out scenarios like that in the public arena,” she said.<\/p>\n
“(But) I do think we have learned that we need to take more time to consider the proposals that come to us,” Claire added.<\/p>\n
It is a tumultuous time politically for F1, with many experts suspecting qualifying got pulled into a wider power struggle.<\/p>\n
“My theory is that this is a political move from whatever the source is to destabilise the F1 strategy group,” former F1 driver Stefan Johansson said on his blog.<\/p>\n
“I think the ultimate goal is to get rid of it or break it up somehow,” he added.<\/p>\n
F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has alleged repeatedly that the democratic system of voting in modern F1 is now badly damaging the sport.<\/p>\n
He has said the powerful manufacturers, Mercedes and Ferrari, effectively control F1 because their engine clients usually toe the line in the voting processes.<\/p>\n
“Absolutely not,” Claire Williams hit back on Monday, as the British team announced a small profit for 2015.<\/p>\n
But F1 veteran Gerhard Berger says what has become clear over the past weeks and months is that F1’s democratic processes are not working.<\/p>\n
“The interests of all the different sides are just too different,” he told Germany’s Sky.<\/p>\n
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