No, in theory you can do an out lap, half of the timed lap and press esc somewhere in s2 let's say. Do it 4 times (so 4 attempts) and you only did 8/12 laps. You can still do one more out lap and abandon it, that's 9/12 and STILL do a 6th attempt
Tbf from drivers point of view on a dry track having it limited to 4 attempts not just 4 timed laps is a good thing because if you start a lap you can complete it whatever happens, you don't have to start thinking "oh is it good enough, maybe I should abandon". But checking it will take ages for you
Right, so we are only allowed to actually go out only 4 times. You will have to actually manually check if people didnt go out 5 times lol. Does abandoning an out lap count as an attempt?
Weather wouldnt be a factor with 5 min Q2 (limited to one lap). We had to get rid of the old Q2 because someone could luck into better track conditions compared to people going out before or after him.