[sherer]

the reason for the burning off the fuel bit is as follows

Qualifying is designed to work out who is the quickest car and have that car starting at the front going down to the slowest car at the back.

If the cars start in that order then they tend to finish in that order as the quickest car at the front pulls away.

As such the FIA and Bernie have tried to make it so that we have qualifying but don't have teh quickest car at the front.. hence all this fuel strategy stuff.. they knew the fuel would have to be burnt off during the session hence the 110% lap rule

my own opinion is that either you have qualifying and you have the quickest car at the front.. or you don't want the quickest car and the front and have ramdom grids.. random grids means no qualifying and pull them out of a hat or a Porsche Cup race of something.. trying to force the two together has led to about 5 different formats in the past 3 years which just hasn't worked