Formula One's motorsport director Ross Brawn believes Sunday's dramatic Italian Grand Prix offered a glimpse of how exciting reverse grid qualifying races could be.
Before the season got underway, F1 wanted to shake up the qualifying format at certain grands prix this year by deciding the grid with a sprint race rather than a timed qualifying session.
The idea was for the cars to line up in reverse championship order for a short qualifying race on Saturday and use the finishing order of that race to determine the grid for Sunday's full-length grand prix. No points would be awarded for the qualifying race, but the hope was that it would create unpredictable results, more excitement and a break from the existing race weekend format.