More news on the qualifying farce. At a meeting today the teams were given two options, neither of which is to revert to the old rules:

a) Stick to the rules used in Australia.

or b) Stick to the new elimination rules in Q1 & Q2 but then go back to the old rules in Q3.

It seems like this was a bolt out of the blue for the teams and thus nothing was agreed on. Apparently there could be more talks next week.

In other news, once Channel 4's deal for F1 - which was essentially taking over the remainder of the BBCs contract for partial live coverage - ends at the end of 2018, Sky have announced that they've agreed an exclusive deal to be the solve broadcaster of F1 coverage, ending terrestrial coverage.