Hamilton, Vettel hit out at F1's reverse-grid idea

SINGAPORE -- Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have launched a scathing attack on the Formula One plan to trial a reversed grid at some races in 2020.

F1 has been desperate to inject more excitement and unpredictability into race weekends and one of the recently proposed ideas ahead of 2020 was to implement Saturday qualifying races as opposed to the current three session timed format. The idea is that the championship order would determine the grid for a 25 lap qualifying race, the resulting order would be how the 20 drivers line up for the actual grand prix on Sunday.

But after qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix, a tense session which saw the top three covered by just over 0.2s, both…