By Andrew Benson Motorsport editor

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Formula One is to review the radical changes made to race weekends after the first three Grands Prix this season.

The sport's governing body, the FIA, is to discuss how the rule changes have affected the sport at a meeting with technical directors and team managers in the second week of April.

The new rule that is under the most scrutiny is the one which demands teams qualify on Saturday with the same fuel load with which they will start the race.

Many leading figures have said it takes much of the drama out of qualifying, which no longer sees drivers go flat out right at the limit of the abilities of themselves and their cars.

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A spokesman for the FIA said there had been a lot of "interesting debate" about the topic, but added the chance of a major revamp was not very high.

He said it was "too early to make judgements after just one race", but dismissed suggestions that the entertainment provided by the Australian Grand Prix was purely down to changeable weather conditions.

The FIA believes the new qualifying rules play an important part in producing less predictable grids, which in turn should create more interesting races.

That was certainly the case in Australia, where McLaren drivers David Coulthard and Kimi Raikkonen finished first and third in the race after qualifying 11th and 15th - although the weather clearly played a significant role as well.

The FIA spokesman said all the "new procedures" for race weekends would be looked at during the meeting in April, but said "refinements rather than radical changes are the likely outcome".

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Williams technical director Patrick Head said he thought F1 should wait at least half a season to see the full effect of the new rules before making any changes.

Head, one of the sport's most respected engineers, said he found the new one-lap qualifying rule "a bit of a bore".

But he added: "People connected with television say it's good news because sometimes [in the past] you could go 25 minutes into the session and all you get on the track is the odd Minardi or something."

He added: "Leaping from one thing to another is difficult. It should go half a season at least before modifying it again.

"The teams are flat out adjusting to the changes that were imposed on them as it is.

"We've got massive changes and very expensive and labour intensive changes imposed for Silverstone. We have got to be out testing with those changes."

Head was referring to the ban on electronic driver-aids which will be implemented from July's British Grand Prix.