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Nine different teams represented in the fast 12 by my count. That isn't a statistic that I have followed but I'm guessing that it's fairly unusual. I'm not sure that it is a true indication of the pace of many in the rest of the field, as much as it indicates who was able to get clean laps late in their qualifying sessions.
What could be done to even out the conditions for qualifying? In my day the sessions were long enough that traffic was not much of a factor. I would like to see them go back to an hour long (no knock out) qualifying session and get a better representation of the fastest cars at the front of the grid. I don't think that the knock out format adds anything to the show. In the CART era there were plenty of late session fast times recorded, and I don't remember traffic being much of a factor.
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