Standing Starts After Safety Car Periods Are a Terrible Idea for Formula 1

Standing starts after a safety car period. Just when we thought Formula One's production line of "creative" ideas might be running out of steam, it churns out this beauty. And it's not just an idea. From 2015, it will be a reality. The Sporting Regulations for next year (page 32 onwards, pdf) state that whenever the safety car comes out to slow the field after a major incident or bad weather, the cars will follow it as normal. But when it comes in, the cars will carry on and do another formation lap. They will then line back up on the grid, in race order, for another off-the-grid start. This will occur for all safety car periods, with the exception of those which began within two laps of a previous start or restart, and those where there ar...

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