Is this the solution for the qualifying chaos at Monza?

Qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix has been quite a chaos for some years now. Traffic jams, caused by drivers trying to find a slipstream, are causing dangerous situations. Peter Windsor doubts whether the current measures are sufficient to deal with this.

The FIA had indicated a new directive for this weekend to prevent the kind of congestion we saw in 2019. Drivers must maintain a minimum average speed during the laps entering and exiting the pits. That was reasonable, but it did not happen that Lewis Hamilton crashed into slow-moving cars almost at full speed during the third free practice.

Qualifying over one lap is certainly not new in Formula 1. The so-called 'Superpole' principle was taken over from the World Superbike Championship by F1 in 2003. The fans did not like the format, in which the drivers set a lap time one by one, however, and so this only lasted for three seasons.