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Is that it now?

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The teams stood firm and the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone listened, qualifying is set to change back to the 2015 system. The elimination-style format has not been well received and teams were only willing to revert to last year's qualifying, something the FIA and Ecclestone didn't want to do. After today's unanimous letter, however, the teams appear to have got their way and qualifying should be changed back to the 2015 format by the Chinese Grand Prix.

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.