Yeah you can gamble on it.SectorOne wrote:Yea you can definitely not predict it, but you can gamble on it.turbof1 wrote:I don't think you can predict it; the time is variated and sometimes there's seconds between the times of one start and an other. One guy in the audience being lucky doesn't mean it's a fixed timing. The red lights do have a fixed timing, but the time between red lights popping to green is variated and I actually believe dependant on Charley Whiting's push on a button.
The Hungary guy never predicted it, he just nailed it completely.
In 100m sprint, there's a correction of 100ms. So if you start within 100ms of the sign, it will be considered a false start. No such correction is present in F1.
Is it worth the risk? Probably not. A frontrunner will not take the risk to get a penalty and a mid- to back runner will need to get around standing cars, loosing what he gains that way plus risk on a penalty too.