That Time When: F1 Introduced The Aggregate Qualifying Format
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🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Tommy, Matt and Dan are back with another 'That Time When' podcast, discussing when F1 introduced the unusual and unpopular aggregate qualifying format in 2005. What happened? How did it work? And was it worse than the recent elimination qualifying?
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| 0:27.2 | Tien's and C's apply subject to status and minimum spend hello everybody welcome back to the WTF one that time when series podcast |
| 0:34.2 | I'm joined by my two favorite people in this cupboard. It's Tom Bellingham and Dan Thorne. How are you both today? Hello good? Thanks |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah, no, yes, I'm good. Oh fantastic. That's it. You both are like hello. I'm great. I'm also fantastic today |
| 0:48.1 | We're gonna be talking about that time when there was aggregate qualifying. It's quite difficult to say aggregate |
| 0:52.9 | I said I was just a aggregate aggregate aggregate qualifying in 2005 and that's not elimination qualifying |
| 1:00.1 | It's aggregate aggregate which is when two things are added together correct to make a time |
| 1:06.3 | But before we go into that let's talk about qualifying in general when how it kind of developed before |
| 1:11.6 | 2005 in 2003 we had one lap qualifying being introduced |
| 1:15.6 | Dan, what did they have kind of before that? |
| 1:18.6 | Well for years the qualifying was basically the same between an hour session on the Friday an hour session on the Saturday |
| 1:24.1 | Whichever times were the fastest would set the grid then from 96 |
| 1:30.1 | It went down to an hour session where each driver had 12 laps |
| 1:34.8 | Including out and in laps so it would be four laps basically to set the grid |
| 1:39.4 | Which was really exciting at the end of sessions |
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