The second qualifying session in Sochi, Russia last week saw no real battle for the top 10 places on the grid from those further down the pack.
This has prompted F1 chiefs to draw up proposals on how to change the race weekend format to give drivers a fairer shot at achieving success during Saturday sessions.
Ross Brawn claims a fourth knockout stage may be created, meaning only four drivers would be eliminated from Q1 and Q2 instead of five, while another four would drop out at Q3, leaving the remaining eight stars battling it out for the top spots.
The F1 chief claims no agreement is in place just yet – which will be music to Vettel’s ears, as he seems dead against the idea.
“I’m just wondering what we will discuss in 10 years’ time, whether we will talk about Q9 and Q10?” he said at the FIA Drivers’ press conference in Japan this week.
“Probably not but maybe we should go less.
“Without going too deep, my personal opinion is nowadays we need too much entertainment to be happy.
“I think it would be nice to settle for something less as well.
“My personal preferred qualifying was back in the day where they had one hour and you can do what you want.
“Obviously qualifying for some people will never be as exciting as the race, but for other people it’s more exciting than the race, so it depends on your taste.
“I think it’s about getting the perfect lap and I don’t think it matters how many qualifying sessions you have.
“Now we have three and the one that most people look out for is the last one. So if you have Q4, Q5, Q6, Q7, that’s not going to change.”
Speaking about the plans this week, Brawn said: “The qualifying format has now been well established for several years – apart from the unsuccessful experiment at the start of 2016 – but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t look at ways of improving it.
“Such as the idea recently put forward at the last Strategy Group meeting, to split qualifying into four parts rather than the current three.
“No agreement was reached on introducing it for 2019 but the seeds of discussion were planted, now we have to make sure they grow well.”