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Originally Posted by Tourer
Seems to me that a standing start is virtually taking us back to the old days before SC where a race might be red-flagged and then re-started. If you're going to do a standing start, it begs the question on why you'd trundle round behind the SC for a few laps - might as well stop them, grid them up and be ready to go once the joint is cleared up.
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Presumably if they trundle round behind the SC prior to a grid re-start they will not need a warm up lap. I guess if the cars were stopped they would need a warm up lap.
Also another consideration might be to the broadcasters.... even though reduced the lap count continues behind the SC, it is still counting down which it would not if stopped in pitlane. We dont want to have GPs being run to time certain finishes so the TV channels can maintain their programme schedules.