McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said: “As a community, as an F1 community, we have identified that the priority number one, apart from safety, was qualifying, and driving in qualifying to the limit of grip and to make sure that the drivers that are best at exploiting the grip, and at times even take the risks to do so, they are rewarded.
“Here in Suzuka, because we have this shortage of energy, we expose some of the limitations of the current regulations.
“Degner One is now a corner in which you almost lift and roll through the corner, and then you have to avoid going on power between Degner One and Two, because that way of using your battery would not be efficient.
“Instead, that corner has always been one that the drivers will mention in a season, like what are the most challenging corners, that’s one of those.
“At the moment, that corner is kind of, you know, you think about the battery as you go through the corner, you don’t think about gaining half a tenth just by committing to it.
“The first corner at the Spoon as well, similar concept applies between the first part and second part of the Spoon.
“I can understand that the drivers push the F1 community to fix this, such that qualifying retains the excitement, the challenge, the DNA of being the moment in which the best driver gets rewarded, especially in the places where they can make the difference with the bravery and the ability.
“It is not obvious as to how to do that, but there are some possibilities, and there are some further meetings that will happen between the teams, the FIA and F1, between now and (the next race in) Miami, so let’s see what progress we can do there.”
