Long Beach to have a Standing Start???

[Anubis]

Standing starts are fun to watch in F1. They're part of F1 culture. However, indeed a dumb move by someone could end this tragically. I think F1 fans still vividly remember the crash at the 2012 Belgium GP, where a flying Lotus could have easily chopped off Alonso's head.

How is that crash any different to Marco Andretti flying over Scott Dixon at St Pete in 2011? what about Dan Wheldon getting flipped over at Infineon before he'd even technically started the race?

[Nem14]

The cars don't have launch control, and only the chevy cars have anti-stall system. The cars not able to do standing starts, and yes there are a lot of drivers who did standing starts a lot of year ago, and some of them never did, and this will be cause some major(hopefully not fatal) crash.

What other series' that routinely do standing starts have cars that use 'launch control'?
Major collisions happen with rolling starts too, so you still have not explained how standing starts are any more dangerous than rolling starts.

[Anubis]

To add recent incidents from other series with rolling starts, off the top of my head I can think of Marcel Tiemann's career ending GT Open crash at Imola, the 2008 A1GP race at Sepang where two cars (one being Marco Andretti again, oddly enough) went over Narain Karthikeyan when he suffered gearbox problems and couldn't accelerate, plus a flying Merc SLS at an ADAC GT race at Sachsenring. I just don't see the support for the idea that one is somehow safer than the other.

[mr nobody]

What other series' that routinely do standing starts have cars that use 'launch control'?
Major collisions happen with rolling starts too, so you still have not explained how standing starts are any more dangerous than rolling starts.

No they do not.

Signed,

Kevin Cogan

[anthonyvop]

No they do not.

Signed,

Kevin Cogan

HA!

[Nem14]

No they do not.

Signed,

Kevin Cogan

HA!

That was the 1984 race.

Then there was the start of the 1994 race that effectively ended Stan Fox's race car driving career:
1995 - Indianapolis 500 Start - YouTube

[mr nobody]

That was the 1984 race.

Then there was the start of the 1994 race that effectively ended Stan Fox's race car driving career:
1995 - Indianapolis 500 Start - YouTube

1982 was the year Kevin Cogan wrecked on the start taking out Foyt and Andretti. Also, 1995 was the year Stan Fox suffered his tragic wreck. Not to mention 1991 with Gary Bettenhausen getting sideways in the south short chute and Scott Sharpe in 2001 when he crashed from the pole just shortly after taking the green

[C3PO]

Sad news for chimpcar fans:

curtcavin .@BeauxBarfield on the possibility of a standing start at Long Beach: "Absolutely not." #IndyCar

[anthonyvop]

Sad news for chimpcar fans:

Sad news for IndyCar fans as TV ratings in the infomercial range and attendance at the level of an summer art festival is expected but hey....

.........Maybe Einstein was wrong.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

[MAX_THRUST]

CART didn't have standing starts, IRL didn't have standing starts. Champ Car tried. For me one of the things I loved about Indy CAr back from the CART days, was rolling starts. Be differernt to every other open wheel series and keep the rolling starts. I'm just not a fan of standing starts in Indy Car. They work fine in F1 and other series, but roling starts are kind of a tradition and should be kept. What makes a series great is history. Lets not loose that piece of history.