I'd like to have seen that start

[mainemandean]

We wait an extra day for a standing start, the announcers hype it big-time...

Then when the green drops, the TV director instantly goes to a split screen which shows a) backmarker Carpenter stalling on one side, and b) a distant aerial shot of the middle of the pack on the other. Say what!!??

Keep it simple, NBCSN. We just want to see the start, from the front looking back. See how it unfolds. Stick with that camera until the first half of the field gets through Turn 1.

Even the replays of the start were edited to be so short that you really could not see what happened in a general way.

I think there should be standing starts at all road and street courses, and both days at R/S doubleheaders. Rolling starts are an oval thing.

IMHO,

Dean

[NoviVespa]

That stalled Ed Carpenter car was important. Could it have led to a yellow?

Rolling starts were all races thing. Standing starts are a F1 thing.

[doitagain]

I'd like to have seen that start

Here you go

http://www.trackforum.com/forums/showthread.php?178485-Standing-Starts-The-Poll&p=3394003&viewfull=1#post3394003

[Samantha]

I kept waiting for a shot of Dina Mears

[mdkiel]

I kept waiting for a shot of Dina Mears

Does seem like they went out of their way to do anything but show a clear shot of the much anticipated, historic standing start.

The half-decent shots they had they seem to cut too soon. How can something so simple be seemingly so hard to do?

[GilcoGames]

"Then when the green drops, the TV director instantly goes to a split screen...."

I don't mean to pile on here but yes that was a strange decision by the race director. Was this how they planned it? Ugh! Just watch an F1 start for some ideas. Jeez! The group of people I was with watching this historic start all exclaimed "What?!?!?" at the same time. As soon as the green lit, they changed the cameras and you had no idea what you were looking at. Stupid. Just give me a stationary view from the front of the start. K.I.S.S.

[Kevin_K]

After doing some thinking about the standing starts. I'm starting to morph into the traditionalist that they really don't have a place in Indycar. With one big exception; Long Beach. This is a venue where I think it would really benefit from a standing start, since half of the field is still going through the hairpin when they throw the green. And the field is generally messy and not well organized. It's not a new problem either; they have had messy starts (or at least not as well formed as other venues) since they started race there in 1984.

[Rossfeld]

The other thing I don't get, is when they do split-screen(with the onboards, which is stupid) or the side-by-side during commercials; why do they only have it take up part of the screen? They have some weird graphic/animation in the background that does nothing. Why not make the entire viewing window bigger, hell even the commercial would be bigger and everyone's happy.

[BizzyV]

They're learning. Although it shouldnt have been so difficult to check out an F1 broadcast and see what they do. During those broadcasts you end up seeing tons of different views of the standing start throughout the any dead times during the first quarter of the race. So much is going on, it takes quite a few different views to truly digest whats going on. I still dont think i really know what happened on that standing start.

[mdkiel]

They're learning. Although it shouldnt have been so difficult to check out an F1 broadcast and see what they do.

Not quite sure why they didn't. Anybody who was there have a Zapruder film?

[apex27]

The scary part is they had the rear view for the aborted start too.

Who the heck made that decision? It was not spur of the moment, clearly planned.