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We might not be far away from drivers causing red flags in qualifying losing their times in that session. Even so, that doesn't fix the issue of the remaining drivers missing out on setting another lap.
Maybe F1 needs to look at having an 'emergency 3 minutes of Q3' in the schedule after qualifying. If an incident occurs in the last 3 minutes of Q3, the emergency time is activated once the incident is cleaned up. Probably wouldn't need to delete the crashed driver's time in that case either. (I'm only suggesting this for Q3, so we get to see all of the pole runs.)
Maybe F1 needs to look at having an 'emergency 3 minutes of Q3' in the schedule after qualifying. If an incident occurs in the last 3 minutes of Q3, the emergency time is activated once the incident is cleaned up. Probably wouldn't need to delete the crashed driver's time in that case either. (I'm only suggesting this for Q3, so we get to see all of the pole runs.)
Also, Hamilton was speaking after the session about a tweak the team made (sounds like it was in relation to getting the tyres in the window) in FP3 that caused his performance turnaround. It sounds like Bottas had this tweak as well and that still only had him just inside the top 10 in Q1-Q3. This is starting to look like a really rough season for Bottas.
I wonder if they think the sprint race idea will mitigate some of this? 
There are comments floating around that in future years they would like to have four sprint races, at one race weekend on four different continents (Europe, North America, South America, Asia/Australia) and call it a tennis style Grand Slam. That feels a bit gimmicky to say the least.