The lap times from the Friday afternoon session did not determine the grid order.
#F1 SPRINT RACE DRIVERS#
No refuelling was allowed between the start of Saturday qualifying and the start of the race, so drivers qualified on race fuel. The Saturday running order was determined by times set in Friday afternoon qualifying with the fastest heading out last and the slowest running first. In 2003, the Friday running order was determined with the leader of the Drivers' Championship heading out first. This format remained until the conclusion of the 2002 season.īetween 20, the qualifying session was run as a one-lap session and took place on Friday and Saturday afternoon with the cars running one at a time.
#F1 SPRINT RACE DRIVER#
This was calculated by using the time of the driver on pole position and adding on 7% to create a cut-off time. As previously, each driver was limited to twelve laps with the inclusion of a 107% rule to exclude drivers with slow lap times. In 1996, qualifying was amended with the Friday qualifying session abolished in a favour for a single qualifying session held on Saturday afternoon. Each driver was limited to twelve laps per qualifying session. The fastest time set by each driver from either session counted towards his final grid position.
Traditionally before 1996, qualifying was split into two one-hour sessions the first was held on Friday (Thursday at Monaco) afternoon from 13:00 to 14:00 local time, with the second held on Saturday afternoon at the same time. Kimi Räikkönen at Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the qualifying for 2005 United States Grand Prix.Ī qualifying session is held before each race to determine the order cars will be lined up in at the start of the race, with the fastest qualifier starting at the front and the slowest at the back. Second practice session for the Bahrain, Singapore and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix takes place in the evening as these races are run at night. Private tests are now heavily restricted, but a third driver (such as a reserve, test, or junior driver) is permitted to take part in the first Friday free practice session in the place of a regular driver. From 2021, all sessions last for one hour, prior to this the Friday sessions were 90 minutes in length and the Saturday session was one hour long. The first is held on Friday morning and the second on Friday afternoon, while the third session is on Saturday morning. Since 2006, three free practice sessions (often abbreviated to FP1, FP2, and FP3) are held before the race.
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