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What's the shortest start/finish straight on the calendar? The only real limit to the number of teams in my mind comes purely from how much longer the cars are that at a certain point the grid has to wrap around the final turn. I don't think we're anywhere near that on any of the current tracks, though.
The thing is, in order to gain grade 1 status a track must have capacity for 12 teams
who needs that when you can just spin up a street circuit anywhere
Oh we totally had that in Vegas last year.
Went to check and sure enough: https://youtu.be/Q6InUqrk9F4?t=20
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We used to have pre-qualifying for situations like that
F1 is much too expensive for teams to be able to afford to show up and not qualify for a race
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?
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.
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.
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
Rolling starts are lame. I donβt know why youβd want to do that.
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.