As the final pre-season test got underway at the Circuit de Catalunya today, team managers were meeting to discuss the new qualifying format.

The 'knock out' format proposed at last week’s Strategy Group meeting at the circuit, and subsequently rubber stamped by the F1 Commission, will not be introduced until the Spanish Grand Prix, Bernie Ecclestone having admitted that it will take that long to produce the necessary software.

However, whilst the new format has divided fans, so too drivers and the teams have mixed views.

Felipe Massa has argued that it will produce "chaos", whilst Fernando Alonso feels it will merely cause a "headache" for race fans.

Indeed, Lewis Hamilton, who in many ways is the target of the hastily rushed through new format, believes that it won't change anything.

Speaking at the Geneva Motorshow, Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne admitted that his team is against the new format.

"I think we need more discussions about the new format," he told reporters. "We must be careful not to upset the system.

"I'm not sure Ferrari can accept Bernie's ideas," he added, though the F1 supremo was actually in favour of an alternative format. "We need to understand it better, and I don't think every team agrees with the proposal."

That said, whatever the outcome of the team bosses meeting, source claim the new format, certainly in its current guise, will not see the light of day.

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1. Posted by Kkiirmki, 02/03/2016 0:17

"The worst part, Bernie seems to think he's somehow saved F1 by changing the qualifying format, which was never the issue."

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2. Posted by Ro, 01/03/2016 17:04

"its not the qualifying that will "spice up" the racing. You need to make the cars more difficult to drive. The more technology that is thrown at it the less the driver has to do. Kill the pit-to-car radio, bring back the clutch and a gearstick, get rid of the Batman wings, then we may have some "RACING" "

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3. Posted by edllorca, 01/03/2016 15:36

"More off track chaos!"

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