F1 to adopt standing restarts in 2015

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This is some Brian France-level bull****. "Improve the show...not enough excitement...the spectacle...more drama". :rolleyes:

Formula 1 is set for standing starts from the grid following safety cars in 2015, AUTOSPORT can reveal.

Following discussions between teams about ways to improve the show, one idea that has gained momentum in recent weeks is to overhaul the way that races resume after caution periods.

There is a consensus that the current rolling restarts with the leader dictating the pace do not provide enough excitement.

Sources have revealed that during this week's F1 Commission meeting at Biggin Hill, a proposal to scrap the current format for 2015 and change it to grid starts after safety cars was approved.

The idea is that from next year, once lapped cars have been allowed to unlap themselves, cars will form up on the grid once a safety car period has ended.

There will then be the same procedure of a standing start as happens at the beginning of races.

The hope is that there will be more chance of positions changing, with the spectacle of a standing start producing more drama than rolling starts do.

The rule change still needs to be ratified at the FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting in Munich next week, but this will be a formality now that the F1 Commission has backed it.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114529
 
Running air-cooled race engines sorry "power units" for a certain amount of time, then stopping them while they try to figure out a standing restart, then running them at full power again?

I predict a lot of blown head gaskets.
 
Wow. What BS.

Don't go down the road NASCAR took. Don't mess with the fundamentals. Don't mess with the show.
 
What are they all doing to our beloved racing???

Apparently F1 doesn't produce enough crashes.
 
been watchin F1 for years and they already do standing starts. The way this tread starts one would think F1 is going to start doing something new.
 
blue92 said:
been watchin F1 for years and they already do standing starts. The way this tread starts one would think F1 is going to start doing something new.
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Standing starts AFTER safety cars. It's basically the equivalent of a double-file restart.
 
KevinWI said:
Running air-cooled race engines sorry "power units" for a certain amount of time, then stopping them while they try to figure out a standing restart, then running them at full power again?

I predict a lot of blown head gaskets.
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More crashes, more power unit failures, undeserving drivers and teams getting do-overs...it's going to be a mess. Waving around lapped drivers hurt the leader(s) enough already.

DUN24 said:
What are they all doing to our beloved racing???

Apparently F1 doesn't produce enough crashes.
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Being a buffoon must be some sort of requirement to manage the highest levels of motorsport.
 
i say watch 1st ....then decide.
f1 ain't exactly hi on my adrenalin status these days.....cept last race.
 
hawg dawg said:
i say watch 1st ....then decide.
f1 ain't exactly hi on my adrenalin status these days.....cept last race.
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Does tradition mean nothing nowadays? Restarts were never meant to be dripping with excitement, particularly in F1. Sure I'll sit up in my chair waiting for a pile up or two, but that won't make the racing any better. Granted, they get strung out, but it's the nature of the beast.
 
DUN24 said:
Does tradition mean nothing nowadays? Restarts were never meant to be dripping with excitement, particularly in F1. Sure I'll sit up in my chair waiting for a pile up or two, but that won't make the racing any better. Granted, they get strung out, but it's the nature of the beast.
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dun.....i'm in my waning yrs of tradition !
i want new thrill from here on out ! ha!
race ta finish like last race.....not crashes.
 
hawg dawg said:
i say watch 1st ....then decide.
f1 ain't exactly hi on my adrenalin status these days.....cept last race.
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I'm not sure how standing restarts are in any way better than rolling restarts. It seems like a whole load of horse hockey, just like the titanium skid blocks to create sparks that they tried out earlier today.

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FLRacingFan said:
I'm not sure how standing restarts are in any way better than rolling restarts. It seems like a whole load of horse hockey, just like the titanium skid blocks to create sparks that they tried out earlier today.

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Lol wtf?

That is some HD giffery btw.
 
DUN24 said:
Lol wtf?

That is some HD giffery btw.
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Not even kidding, they tried it out on Rosberg's and Raikkonen's cars earlier today. They're also talking about glowing brake discs and vapor trails...all part of adding to the spectacle.
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And high quality is the only quality. :)
 
FLRacingFan said:
Not even kidding, they tried it out on Rosberg's and Raikkonen's cars earlier today. They're also talking about glowing brake discs and vapor trails...all part of adding to the spectacle.
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And high quality is the only quality. :)
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try it i say !
when f1 bores old man ...certainly gotta bore all real young folks w/ constant a/d/d.
 
hawg dawg said:
try it i say !
when f1 bores old man ...certainly gotta bore all real young folks w/ constant a/d/d.
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They might look cool, but they're not for safety or performance. If they were a byproduct of those things (like they were back in the early 90s) then I wouldn't care. This is just putting lipstick on a pig. I don't have much of a problem with the racing this year but if they wanted to improve it some more they'd do something relevant like cut down on Tilkedromes.
 
FLRacingFan said:
They might look cool, but they're not for safety or performance. If they were a byproduct of those things (like they were back in the early 90s) then I wouldn't care. This is just putting lipstick on a pig. I don't have much of a problem with the racing this year but if they wanted to improve it some more they'd do something relevant like cut down on Tilkedromes.
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maybe they oughta get rid of hermann tilke an change tracks then.
oops....he's bernie buddy .
 
Maybe they should worry about running some real ****** engines.
 
hawg dawg said:
maybe they oughta get rid of hermann tilke an change tracks then.
oops....he's bernie buddy .
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I like Tilke's designs. A lot of them seem actually very (speak of the devil) Road America-esque. A lot of long straights, and a combination of sharp turns and fast carousel-type wide turns, and they generally keep folding back in on themselves. But, they basically have become to F1 what the high-banked 1.5 miler Charlottized oval has become to NASCAR.

I guess my main concern with the standing restarts is the safety to the drivers, since standing starts are dangerous enough as they are. If it was just blown motors, I wouldn't mind trying. The fact that F1 has a "medical car" (that's what the brand new Mercedes-Benz SL65 is, look for it tomorrow) standing by on the track behind every standing start in case of driver injury should say it all, when they don't trust the regular track ambulances to make it in time.
 
F1 concerned about the show? I guess the only way to counter dominant teams is to give them a chance to wreck on a restart.
 
Things change. I hold off on judging this until after I see it.

How many safety cars does F1 have per year on average?
 
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