IMHO: Will only have a realistic effect in wet or (esp) drying session. Otherwise guys will go out, get their banker lap in before the first cut-off... and wait for the next session. And ja sure, it may catch somebody out that made a mistake on their initial outing, guys having some work on the car done to get it ready for quali now has a couple of minutes less to ensure they post a time, etc. But those should be the exception. In my mind it will actually take away from the excitement of that end-of-quali-period last-gasp runs to see who drops out. You may end up seeing only two or three cars out at the end of Q1, since the rest are confident that they're not going to be caught by only that one guy that still has to drop out. What it miiight do, is screw up some carefully planned race tyre strategies, with some guys maybe being forced to use a set more at times (I'm thinking esp towards end of Q2). In the same vein, it may back-fire with guys saying "Hey, I'm happy with Px and it's more beneficial to sit out and save tyres for the race." Again - there's nothing wrong with qualifying - it's mostly more fun to watch than the race. Why mess around with it? And back to my rant of yesterday - now that everybody is getting settled in the new rules, 3 years down the line and hopefully some teams are catching up... next year is again going to be a major rule change and most likely one team will get the jump on everybody. Same as when this new set of rules came about - just after we had a competitive season!
