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Crunch meeting to decide qualifying fate but views vary

Toto Wolff and Eric Boullier have both expressed a strong desire to go ahead and ditch the elimination qualifying format and return to last year's system, but it isn't clear whether the sport's stakeholders will have the chance to vote on it at another key meeting to be held in Bahrain. Following its inauspicious debut in Australia, team bosses had agreed provisionally to unanimously vote through a motion to revert back to last year's more popular format. However, the FIA refused to give it as an option – instead offering only a tweaked version -, which meant no agreement was reached and elimination qualifying remained for Bahrain. However, despite FIA President Jean Todt's hopes it...
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