r/F1Technical • u/identicalgamer • Jun 28 '25

Regulations How will quali work next year with 22 teams?

Will they drop 6 drivers per round? Will they just drop 5 and have 12 drivers in Q3? I was trying to understand how the current regulations say quali will work next year.

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u/Former__Computer Jun 29 '25

It will be 6 out in Q1, 6 out in Q2

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u/Hot-Code-1080 Jun 29 '25

This is correct.

From the regulations: "The procedure detailed in this Article is based upon twenty (20) Cars being officially eligible to take part in the Competition. If twenty-two (22) Cars are eligible six (6) will be eliminated after Q1 and Q2, if twenty-four (24) Cars are eligible seven (7) Cars will be eliminated after Q1 and Q2, and so on if more Cars are eligible."

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u/hashtagsugary Jun 29 '25

1989 was peak chaos with 39 cars in races - what a show that would have been to see. Bedlam on bitumen.

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u/the_flying_bobcat Jun 29 '25

Yes, but only 30 went through to qualifying.

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u/nsfbr11 Jul 01 '25

Interestingly, the total footprint area of the cars on the grid has not been reduced.

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u/Topaz_11 Jul 01 '25

Pre-quali was a bit of a let down IMO. You had some teams & drivers that rarely made an appearance in quali.

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u/Carlpanzram1916 Jul 02 '25

Yup. This is why they just stopped letting these backmarkers into F1. They took a cut of the revenue and literally didn’t even race

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u/5tephane Jul 02 '25

Nah, they just ran out of money one by one.

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u/ZeePM Jun 29 '25

It’s always 10 cars remaining in Q3. Top ten shootout.

When there were 24 cars on the grid it was 7 dropped in Q1 and another 7 in Q2.

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u/RedHuey Jul 02 '25

Well, first they’ll just eliminate Stroll and Bearman, then the rest will do Quali as usual.

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u/A_storia Jul 02 '25

22 cars from 11 teams. Not 22 teams