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19th September 2011, 12:40 #1Senior Member
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Standing starts
The start at Motegi was a complete joke. Standing starts are required on road courses and street courses as per ChampCar, F1 and all other open wheel Championships. Rolling starts are correct only for ovals.
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19th September 2011, 13:30 #2Senior Member
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That's a pretty great idea actually.
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19th September 2011, 14:19 #3Senior Member
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I'm for them also because they add diversity to the series
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19th September 2011, 18:54 #4Senior Member
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Frankly I see no reason why they can't use them on Ovals as well.
Imagine 33 cars lighting them up on the front straight at Indy!!!
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19th September 2011, 18:58 #5Senior Member
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No! Keep rolling starts IMO. Its what makes it different from the rest!!
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19th September 2011, 19:02 #6Senior Member
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Agree with you for 100%.
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October 16th, 2011 - One of the blackest days in the history of motorsports.
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19th September 2011, 19:56 #7Senior Member
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I just re-read AJ Foyt autobiography from back in 1983 - sounds like rolling starts have been a problem (even on ovals and at Indy) back at least into the mid 1950's - apparently from Foyt's point of view/memory at the time there were 3 or 4 500's in a row that did not get past lap one without an accident.... you also have 1964 at Indy, 1982 and a few other first lap/pre-start incidents that escape me at the moment....
While the rolling start is an AOWR tradition, I am all for switching all of them to standing starts - the rolling ones are not working so great so switch it up..... I have to agree that 33 cars lighting them up at Indy would be a sight to behold....
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19th September 2011, 21:34 #8Senior Member
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They should also use standing restarts. At least then they would actually be two wide.
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20th September 2011, 03:40 #9Senior Member
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Lets go back a few years to the CC years. I just got a 03 Corvette and called a good LB buddy and said lets drive to Portland for the CC race. We live in NorCal, he said WTF. Now this was the first race for CC to do standing starts. They practiced alot one at a time so that was cool. The start was real exciting, went off great. It is time IC does this NOW. Street/Road
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Originally Posted by jwhite9185
True Different than NASCAR, the most popular series in the USA......Wait.......What?
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Meeke still destroying all the WRC2 guys even after rolling the car on the Shakedown.
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