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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Is there any particular reason or regulation why the F1 races couldn't use a running start like other categories? Where everyone departs from the pits at fixed intervals and then the race starts after a 0 lap. Is the grid start from standstill mandatory?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Rolling starts are lame. I donโ€™t know why youโ€™d want to do that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I don't particularly want it one way or the other. I was genuinely asking since I don't know a lot about the sport. I find it all boring and lame regardless but I'm open to learn and appreciate. But nobody seems to fucking know or care enough to answer the question. And just down votes, I suppose out of an imaginary insult or slight implied by the question.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Standing starts are almost as integral to the identity of F1 as open wheels are. Right or wrong, F1 is almost certainly never going to switch to rolling starts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Presumably you'd get less wheel-to-wheel racing, and considering that most recent rule changes have been in pursuit of more of that, it seems unlikely they'd take a course that resulted in less.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yeah, the first two or three laps are where the most passing happens and the cars generally set into a groove from there

Spec series like Indy and F2 keep the cars closer together for the entire race so there's action throughout