Mosley Supports Sunday Qualifying

Formula One fans would get more value for money if final qualifying at Grands Prix were moved from Saturday to Sunday morning, world motorsport head Max Mosley said today.

"There's a lot of talk at the moment about the possibility of having the qualifying for the grid on Sunday morning," Mosley told BBC radio. "On the Saturday you would have the qualifying on empty tanks, on the basis that that determines the order you come out for the Sunday.

"That would mean that somebody who went to the race on Sunday would really get a very full day's entertainment," added the International Automobile Federation (FIA) president.

"If we had Friday as a proper test day then the need for a separate test team would disappear, at which point the costs for a Formula One team would come down dramatically."

Under a new format introduced this season, qualifying takes place on Friday and Saturday with drivers given one timed lap each. Gary Anderson, Jordan's director of race engineering, put forward the Sunday qualifying proposal at the end of April as a means of cutting costs.