Bernie Ecclestone believes F1 can still salvage the good from elimination-style qualifying as chiefs vote on what system is used for the Bahrain GP. F1s new-for-2016 qualifying format was panned by drivers, leading team bosses and fans following its introduction in Australia with pole position settled with four minutes of the final session still to run.Team bosses unanimously voted to revert to 2015s rules from the Bahrain GP during a meeting in Melbourne on race-day morning. However, it has since emerged that the 90-second elimination format could be retained in some form for Bahrain. Sky Sports News HQ understands the Strategy Group and F1 Commission are conducting e-votes on Thursday, with the second vote to take place in late afternoon.The teams are discussing that [qualifying] and they want to go back, Ecclestone told Italys Gazzetta dello Sport.If I were to give an opinion, I would say we will continue with the format from Australia. After a unanimous decision from fans and team principals that it wasnt successful, F1s new qualifying format has been scrapped The F1 supremo added: I am a prudent man, and new things must be tested. The new qualifying caused a bit of shock, but maybe we can salvage the good of the format.One suggestion is for a halfway house solution whereby Q1 and Q2 remain under the new elimination rules while Q3 reverts to the more established format.The idea of stopping the 90-second eliminations after Q2 and running Q3 under the old rules was first floated by team managers during a meeting with FIA race director Charlie Whiting during the second Barcelona test, only for the original idea to be voted through. When is Bahrain GP on Sky? All the times you need for the second race of the 2016 season. Although F1 teams agreed to drop the new format last Sunday, the F1 Commission still has to formally agree to any changes. The World Motor Sport Council would then deliver the final ratification for the new rules ahead of next weeks Bahrain GP. The F1 Commission represents a wider group of interests, including race promoters, sponsors and tyre supplier Pirelli, and team bosses had suggested that promoters had been keen on the elimination system.The Bahrain GP weekend is live on Sky Sports F1. The race begins at 4pm on Sunday April 3, with build-up underway from 2.30pm. Every race live in 2016 Sky Sports F1 brings you every race live in 2016. Fast and easy online upgrade - click here. Also See: Mercedes v Ferrari analysed The F1 Gossip Column Tracy McGrady Jersey . -- Edmontons Val Sweeting is two wins away from a trip to Winnipeg to play in Canadas Road of the Rings in December. Austin Rivers Jersey . Pert has formerly spent time as an assistant coach with Cardiff City, Coventry City, and Bahrain mens national team. 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Charlie Adam scored both of Stokes goals at Britannia Stadium either side of Robin van Persies equalizer, with a miserable day for seventh-place United capped by first-half injuries to centre halves Jonny Evans and Phil Jones that forced them off. MARSEILLE, France -- Coach Didier Deschamps has challenged his players to write themselves into the history of French football on Thursday by beating Germany in their European Championship semifinal.France has not won a trophy since Euro 2000 and is bidding to reach the final of a major competition for the first time in a decade.We have a new page to write. The players can write it, Deschamps said Wednesday at a pre-match news conference. Its blank now. We have to fill it tomorrow. Germany has reached at least the semifinals in the past five tournaments, losing the Euro 2008 final and winning the 2014 World Cup.We cant match Germany in terms of their experience, the number of caps, the number of semifinals and finals theyve been in, Deschamps said. But were going to give it our best shot. I dont want us to just think about defending. We have the ability to create danger.France had been waiting a long time for such an opportunity. After losing the 2006 World Cup final to Italy on penalties, which brought the curtain down on Zinedine Zidanes glory era, Les Bleus went into freefall, failing to win a game at Euro 2008 and the 2010 World Cup.Quarterfinal appearances at Euro 2012 and the 2014 World Cup -- where it lost 1-0 to Germany -- somewhat restored Frances reputation.But victory against Germany would definitively close the chapter on an often traumatic era for French football, which included qn infamous training-ground strike at the World Cup six years ago.To reach thaat tournament, France had needed a blatant handball by Thierry Henry in a controversial playoff win against Ireland.dddddddddddd There was also a five-match ban for then-captain Patrice Evra after the 2010 World Cup and a lack of discipline followed at Euro 2012.The build-up to Euro 2016 was full of debate as to whether striker Karim Benzema should play.With Benzema facing preliminary charges of conspiracy to blackmail France teammate Mathieu Valbuena, Deschamps left out arguably his most talented player in the interests of team harmony.Not everythings been smooth, but the players have done what they needed to, said Deschamps, the team captain when France won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. 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