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9th April 2013, 18:34 #41Originally Posted by Starter
I'm not for it or against it. I don't really care, to be honest. But the major issue I think they'd face, if they tried to do standing starts anywhere, would be the lack of skill as you get deeper in the field. Despite what C3-Trackforum Boy is ignorantly claiming, F1 has no more (and probably fewer) issues with its standing starts than the IRL (or IndyCar or whatever it's being called this week) has with its rolling starts - Baltimore, anyone? Including the officials, asking some of these characters to do a standing start would be like asking Paris Hilton to solve a physics problem."Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience." --John Kenneth Galbraith
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9th April 2013, 22:21 #42Originally Posted by StarterOriginally Posted by Jag_Warrior
Gary"If you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem." --- George Carlin :andrea: R.I.P.
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10th April 2013, 22:05 #43
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I have to agree with Starter, rolling starts on the ovals and standing starts on the road/streets. Whilst a standing start on an oval would be quite interesting, if a car stalled then the race would be instantly yellowed and that car would go at least 2 laps down before being re-fired, plus the fact that it would go against the traditions of oval racing. Road/Street courses, on the other hand, should be ALL standing starts. Have two Safety crews line-up at the back of the grid, so if one or more cars do stall, they can be quickly re-fired before the field comes back round. But, this would be irrelevant, if both Honda & Chevrolet could get their anti-stall systems sorted by the time we get to Toronto. They've had plenty of time to get these systems working by now.
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11th April 2013, 03:47 #44
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Originally Posted by Starter
Originally Posted by MAX_THRUST
Originally Posted by MAX_THRUST
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11th April 2013, 18:19 #45Originally Posted by garyshell
But again, I'm not arguing in favor of doing this. It's just that apart from tradition or whatever, I don't think there are the safety concerns that some claim, not that I can see anyway. One of the biggest safety concerns I can think of is being on an oval track with E.J. Viso going 220+ mph. Now that is freaking scary!"Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience." --John Kenneth Galbraith
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11th April 2013, 19:16 #46
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Originally Posted by Starter
But as has been seen several times in F1 if a car that starts in the front rows, a car from the very back has a good deal of speed up before he gets to the car that stalled and has made contact with them shile they were sitting stalled on the grid/track. It's not strictly an issue of the pole sitter coming up on them too fast as it would be more likely a car from the back of the grid hitting it first.So sad that thin skinned namby pambies infect a place and other placate to their wishes at the expense of others who have done no wrong.
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11th April 2013, 20:59 #47
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