Rafa Benitez has been appointed as Newcastle manager on a three-year deal, saying he has committed to a legendary English club. Benitez, who arrived on Tyneside early on Friday afternoon, was announced just three hours after Steve McClarens sacking on Friday morning.After a brief meeting at St James Park, Benitez left for Newcastles Darsley Park training ground to meet with club staff and took his first training session with the players. It is thought Benitez will take training on both Saturday and Sunday and could be in the dugout for Newcastles Monday Night Football clash at Premier League leaders Leicester City.Sky Sports News HQ understands Benitez, who has been without a club since being sacked by Real Madrid in January, has an opt-out clause in his contract if the club is relegated.I have the pleasure to confirm I have committed to a legendary English club, said Benitez in a club statement. With the massive challenge of remaining part of the Premier League.It will be a challenge not just for me and my staff but for the players, the club and the fans. Five games which cost McClaren Newcastle sack Steve McClaren: Five games which cost him his job All of us must push together in the same direction and with the same target in mind. This is the reason why Im going to ask for your total support to successfully complete this task.Personally, it means my return to the Premier League, closer to my home and my family. I cant be happier. Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink says Rafa Benitez will bring experience to Newcastle Cmon Toon Army! The club and I need your total involvement!The former Liverpool and Chelsea boss will be joined by Fabio Pecchia, Francisco de Míguel Moreno and Antonio Gómez Pérez, who will join existing coaches Ian Cathro and Simon Smith to form Benitezs coaching team. The relegation run-in Premier League relegation battle: Newcastle, Sunderland, Norwich and Aston Villas run-ins analysed Paul Simpson, Alessandro Schoenmaker and Steve Black have all left club with immediate effect. Steve McClaren was sacked on Friday morning Managing Director Lee Charnley added: I am very pleased to welcome Rafa Benitez to the club. In Rafa we have, without doubt, secured the services of one of Europes top managers.He has managed some of the most successful teams at the very highest level of the game and we are proud to now have him as our manager. Rafas ups and downs Rafael Benitez to Newcastle? Ups and downs of the Spanish manager Our sole focus now is to give our full support to Rafa, his coaching team and the players in order to secure our status in the Premier League. Whats wrong at Newcastle? Whats going wrong at Newcastle? The problems which cost Steve McClaren I would like to place on record my sincere thanks to Paul Simpson, Alessandro Schoenmaker and Steve Black for their service to the Club.McClaren was sacked by Newcastle after just nine months at the club which saw him win just six games in 28 Premier League outings and leave the club 19th in the table, one point adrift of safety. Paul Merson says the way Newcastle United have sacked Steve McClaren is poor and disrespectful Benitez becomes Newcastles eighth permanent manager in 12 years and their second foreign coach in the Premier League following Ruud Gullits spell in charge in 1998-99.The Spaniard has won 12 trophies, including two La Liga titles with Valencia and the Champions League with Liverpool during a distinguished career. Keith Downie gets reaction from fans as Rafa Benitez takes over at Newcastle Also See: Five games which cost McClaren McClaren in quotes Whats wrong at Newcastle? Rafas ups and downs Puma Shoes Clearance Sale . 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The sports new-look qualifying format for 2016 endured a disastrous debut at the Australian GP on Saturday with cars repeatedly not on track at the end of the three sessions - including the final minutes of Q3 when pole position should have been fought between the two quickest drivers.Team principals, including Christian Horner, Toto Wolff and Maurizio Arrivabene, and sporting directors met with FIA race director Charlie Whiting to discuss an urgent response on Sunday morning in Melbourne. Horner and Wolff confirmed on their departures from the 25-minute meeting that the team representatives had unanimously agreed to drop the system with immediate effect.Pending official ratification by the F1 Commission and World Motor Sport Council, the qualifying system will revert to the more standard three-part knockout format used between 2006 and 2015 from the Bahrain GP on April 2-3.We made a mistake and will go back for the next race, Horner told Sky Sports News HQ. We are usually a pretty dysfunctional group but there was absolute unanimity. After securing his 50th career pole position, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton revealed that his engineers had predicted that the new qualifying format woul Were tickling with the wrong areas. Its like trying to introduce a second ball on the pitch in football. The problems arent in the format of qualifying or what a grand prix is. 2017 represents a great opportunity with different regs and thats the opportunity that shoulld be used for closer racing.ddddddddddddAll the teams are looking to protect their competitiveness, but youve got to look at the bigger picture. What do the fans want? Primarily a drivers championship. Drivers racing wheel to wheel in exciting fast cars.When you try and get 11 teams to write that on a piece of paper what it should be, thats where it goes wrong. Thats where it should be taken out of the teams hands. The promoter and the governing body should say, this is what Formula 1s going to be, sign up or do something else.A shake-up of knockout qualifying was only first agreed two weeks ago and had already provoked controversy among drivers, who had argued that it would not work.Team managers also met with FIA race director Charlie Whiting to express reservations about the new-look Q3 during testing at Barcelona, but the elimination system was subsequently rubber-stamped in its original form last week.Conclusions from QualifyingMercedes boss Wolff said that while there would not be any further tinkering with the qualifying system over the rest of the season, F1 shouldnt wipe completely off the table the idea of creating a new format to spice up the show in future. Martin Brundle and David Croft give their damning verdict on the new F1 qualifying format which resulted in no action for the last four minutes The first race of the 2016 F1 season, the Australian GP, is exclusively live on Sky Sports F1. The race in Melbourne starts at 5am on Sunday morning. Also See: F1s new qualifying slammed Australian GP qualy conclusions ' ' '