Interesting take on the standing restarts after cautions from Daniel Ricciardo:
Ricciardo thinks both the fairness issues and safety matters are as important as each other in relation to the new rule.
"I don't want to go into it too much, but if you are leading the race by 20 seconds, the safety car comes out and you lose that 20 seconds advantage, then what was looking like an easy victory is still questionable.
"That is already a big disadvantage for the leader who has worked hard to build up that gap.
"To then put him on the start, and anything can happen at the starts, not only an accident, but you get a poor start you can be from first to fourth before Turn 1, it seems harsh on the leader.
"Then what is happening with the tyres? If you cannot change them you will lose a lot of temperature. At first my argument was the big disadvantage for the leader, but the big one that everyone is talking about is safety.
"Starts in F1 are already quite tight a lot of the time and that is with new tyres, and tyre warmers.
"If we have tyres with 20 laps on them or even more, because when there is a lot of rubber that has been taken off the tyres, they don't hold temperature, it will be significantly more difficult."
I like you Daniel (probably my favorite driver if I had to choose one) but the entire point of the standing restart it to possibly avoid "easy victories" and make the drivers work harder. Hopefully that might inject some competitiveness into the sport which would make this nascent fan very happy!
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