Starting grids

BSchneiderFan · 18 Apr 2013, 11:39 (Ref:3236157)

Can anyone tell me when two-by-two grids became universal?

mattt · 18 Apr 2013, 12:53 (Ref:3236186)

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Originally Posted by BSchneiderFan

Can anyone tell me when two-by-two grids became universal?

Its not F1 amongst many other series uses a 1x1 grid.

aridshelter · 20 Apr 2013, 12:04 (Ref:3237014)

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Originally Posted by mattt

Its not F1 amongst many other series uses a 1x1 grid.

Surely you could only fit one car on a 1x1 grid?

BSchneiderFan · 20 Apr 2013, 13:19 (Ref:3237029)

Sorry, I meant in F1. In the Sixties they often had, for example, three cars on the front row (and of course they still line up in threes at the Brickyard). But at some point all GPs went 2 x 2. When?

nicanary · 20 Apr 2013, 15:02 (Ref:3237045)

Probably a Bernie-ism. Fixed formula for every race. (Snetterton used to have four-abreast in the 60s).

Paradise City · 20 Apr 2013, 16:08 (Ref:3237056)

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Originally Posted by nicanary

Probably a Bernie-ism. Fixed formula for every race. (Snetterton used to have four-abreast in the 60s).

Bernie would be game. That guy is a crazed circus master; he'll try anything. The H&S guys would hardly hack it though. There'd surely be a teams uprising too.

nicanary · 21 Apr 2013, 09:56 (Ref:3237303)

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Originally Posted by Paradise City

Bernie would be game. That guy is a crazed circus master; he'll try anything. The H&S guys would hardly hack it though. There'd surely be a teams uprising too.

I was actually assuming it was something he'd brought in to make all races generic. But since "entertaining the public" and viewing figures are "king", how long before he does a BTCC and has two or three races in an afternoon with ballast and "back of the grid" for the leading teams ?

SWCRacing · 21 Apr 2013, 10:51 (Ref:3237318)

1974, nothing to do with the Dwarf.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 21 Apr 2013, 16:49 (Ref:3237417)

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Originally Posted by SWCRacing

1974, nothing to do with the Dwarf.

It was 1974. The last GP to use 3 on the front row 2 on the second row, alternating down the grid was the 1973 Dutch GP at Zandvoort.

This is a very useful website http://www.statsf1.com/en/grands-prix.aspx, which is full of info and includes the starting grids.

Paradise City · 21 Apr 2013, 23:37 (Ref:3237592)

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Originally Posted by nicanary

I was actually assuming it was something he'd brought in to make all races generic. But since "entertaining the public" and viewing figures are "king", how long before he does a BTCC and has two or three races in an afternoon with ballast and "back of the grid" for the leading teams ?

I'd give it ten or twenty years. It's not something I'd give the time of day for that's for sure.

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