15. OLR - Standing Start Guidelines: A: Additional caution and care must be taken when beginning a race with a standing start. B: All of the rules regard contact apply during the start and first corner of the race. • Drivers should have a plan in the event the car ahead of them fails to launch when the race starts. • Drivers are required give racing room. • You cannot win the race in Lap 1, Turn 1, but you can lose it. C: Be patient. • Begin the race at a pace that will not cause you to run into cars in front of you. • Don't begin by steering to one side and attempting to barge through the pack. • Conversely, don't begin at a slow pace that will make you an obstruction to cars behind you. D: Due to field compression, a compact field will run slower through the first few turns than a spread out field would. • Be prepared to brake extra early for a turn, as each car will be braking a bit farther back on the track than the one in front of it, in order to avoid contact. E: All of the rules in regard to contact concession apply if you knock a racer off track during the start of the race.