Formula 1's governing body as well as Bernie Ecclestone on Friday confirmed that the 'musical chairs'-style qualifying is going ahead in full in 2016.

Throughout the week, amid Ecclestone's claims that the timing software could not be written in time and dissent from the drivers, it was thought that the controversial new system would be either delayed, modified, vetoed or scrapped.

However, Ecclestone, the sport's chief executive, told Forbes on Friday that the software problems have been resolved and the system will be ready for Melbourne.

"It is going to be is exactly what we voted for the other day [at the F1 Commission] and we agreed," he said.

"We thought we wouldn't be able to write the software in time but I think we are going to be able to do that so we are okay. We have been cracking away so it is from Australia for sure."

Indeed, the new format was pushed through the FIA's World Motor Sport Council in Geneva on Friday.

"The new system should be introduced for the first round of the 2016 FIA formula one world championship," the Paris federation said in a statement, adding that the strategy group and F1 Commission will now approve the wording of the actual regulations.