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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
Every car entered makes the field for every race. 10 teams, 20 cars, no pre-qualifying.
There's no way the '23 car will have a chance at PP in '24, but it would definitely be on the grid if that's the car Ferrari entered and it passed scrutineering.
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Yes, absolutely. Every team runs every race, no one gets sent home like they did in the old days when there were more cars than grid spots. Maybe "qualifying" should be renamed, since all it really does is set the starting order. It not longer determines whether the car will race on Sunday or not.
That said, I believe there is a rule stating that to make the field, every car must post a time within a certain percentage of the pole time. If they fail to do that, they do not race. I would guess that last year's cars would have a difficult time meeting this standard, so they may be effectively precluded from competing on that alone.