Early season qualifying groups unfair?

[BootsOntheSide]

On road and street courses, the CART qualifying system is to divide the cars into 2 groups. The top 13 in the championship go into the second group which hits the cirucit later than the first group, the result being that the track has more rubber on it, and the second group can go faster, the resultbeing that the top half of the grid usually has at least 8-10 of the second group. Of course you could cynically suggest that they qualify higher because they're better performing, which is why they are higher in the championship, but the quick improvements in performances by Moreno, Carpentier and Papis when they got into group 2 show that being in group 1 is an impediment to a car's performance.
My question relates to Moreno's comment after aking the Laguna Seca pole, when he said that his crash in race 1 put him in the first group, which consistantly left him unable to score enough good results to move up. So maybe early in the season, the previous year's championship table should be used to calculate the groups, or perhaps for the first 4 races use an average of the last races of last year mixed in to the early points standings. Anyone got any thoughts on the matter.