I'm watching the recording of qualifying, and I think the new format is a complete flop. I don't think it achieves it's goal of making qualifying more exciting; not at all. If anything it's actually less exciting because drivers get eliminated in the middle of laps, so there's none of the excitement to see if the driver is going to put together a flyer and bump himself far enough up the order, he's just in the middle of his lap and he's eliminated; he goes out not with a bang but a whimper.

I really hope they revert this. Some people may have thought it sounded good in theory, but, in practice, it's awful. 

Edit: And the way it ended with everyone sitting in the garage the last few minutes was ridiculous.