Urban Adventure Racing

When it comes to car races, none is more popular than the Formula One. Each year, thousands of viewers from all parts of the world follow this race which is actually held in numerous different racing tracks found in different parts of the globe each season.

Unlike most different sporting events, the Formula One actually has a qualifying round to determine which particular drivers and teams will be eligible to compete in a particular race proper. This is the main reason why certain teams may have more than one representative during a race at a given time. Although the results are not actually counted as part of the points awarded to a particular racing team during each season, the racers still take this qualifying round very seriously. Not only would this determine if they would be allowed to actually compete in the actual. The results of the qualifying round will determine the position of the drivers in the grid during the actual race, with the top qualifiers placed at the front, giving them the advantage they need to win the race. On the other hand, those that have qualified but have the lowest scores are assigned to the farther end of the grids, where they would have to immediately weave through the other racers in order to vie for a place in the actual race proper.

The procedures practiced during the qualifying race of each of the different Formula One races have been used since 2006. Prior to the qualifying race, race car drivers are required to complete at least one practice session. The actual qualifying race lasts for 1 hour and is divided into three different rounds. In the first round, all of the 26 different cars from the different competing teams in the Formula One race for a span of 20 minutes. At the end of this round, the speed and number of laps completed by each car driver is tallied and the eight drivers with the slowest speeds are eliminated from the qualifying round and would not be eligible to compete in the race proper.

The second round commences after a seven minute break. At the beginning of the second round, all the speed times of each of the remaining drivers will be reverted back to zero to provide a fair ground where all the race drivers can start. This time, the remaining 18 drivers would be allowed to race around the lap for another 15 minutes. Just like the first round, the speed and the number of laps completed by each driver is then tallied. The eight car drivers with the slowest speeds are eliminated from the qualifying round, but are allowed to compete in the actual race, occupying the 11th to 18th grids in the actual race.

After an eight-minute break, third and final round begins. Here, the last 10 cars race for 10 minutes. At the end of this round, the speeds are again tallied to determine which grid each of the remaining ten cars would be assigned in the actual race proper.