Was solo start good or bad for F1?
Formula 1 is fond of changing its rules. They were tweaked – after a fair bit of toing and froing – for 2017 to allow for standing starts to take place if races began with exploratory laps behind the safety car in wet conditions. A year later there was an update that once again allowed for additional standing starts if a race was red-flagged (this had last been done in 2001).
The 2020 Italian Grand Prix restart was the first such recurrence of the standing restart rule,
