I was pretty excited about your qualifying result, thought that was a great starting position for the car's first excursion.
Starts are always a problem. Everyone is jacked on adrenaline and there is always someone bound to do something stupid. The racing instructors always say, "You can't win a race on lap 1, but you can certainly lose it" as a way of trying to encourage the drivers to keep level headed for the first lap - doesn't always work though.
Many years ago it happened to me, I was the idiot with a wheel on the grass. Once you're there you are just along for the ride.
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