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I don't know if a standing start necessarily requires a higher skill set than a rolling start, both have their good points and bad points and each requires its own, high level of skill. They should keep things as they are. |
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CRM, yes, it's just normal that you would look at the start/finish/pit straight for the race starts and restarts. A track like Mid Ohio is an anomaly. (Also, that track doesn't really have general spectator access to view the pit straight.)
The main one where a location change might actually help overall, and where they already have the facilities in place to do it, is Silverstone, by moving a rolling start to the old pit straight. In therory, Hangar Straight could work too,but there aren't any of the main viewing stands in place there, and building yet a third set of those at one track seems a bit absurd. At Bahrain, the second and third longest straights are also bookended by slower corners. Having a rolling start in the middle of the back stretch at at Montreal, Hockenheim, Sochi, or Austin could reduce issues of forming the grid, but probably doesn't help matters in the first braking zone. Furthermore, there are no main viewing stands at any of those locations on those four circuits. The back straight at Shanghai leaves you with a "slow chicane" type issue, like Catalunya and Suzuka, and with the need to have the start line farther from the corner at the end of the straight with the hairpin there. You wouldn't really solve anything moving the start at Yas Marina to over by the support pits because the corners at both ends of that "straight" are slower than the ones at either end of the F1 pit straight. So, yeah, in most cases, the various trade-offs mean you're pretty much just as well to leave things as they are. As for the comments about sportscars, the start is less important in an endurance race. Also, with multiple classes, having the entrie field formed up together is less necessary. As for that other stuff, um, the Le Mans start was an echelon-formation standing start, and honestly, they could have just kept that up using the procedure from Le Mans in 1970. |
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Can’t see F1 switching due to safety. Rolling starts are just so much more dangerous, especially in sprint racing.
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Rolling start at Monaco would be a circus act.
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We have enough trouble getting 20 cars or more around Monaco on the first lap
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