Liam Lawson believes F1 can never truly eliminate the risk of start-line crashes despite the steps now in place to avoid a repeat of his Franco Colapinto near-miss.
In Australia, Lawson stalled on the grid as Colapinto took action to avoid ramming into the back of the stricken Racing Bulls machine, with the incident one of the fears McLaren boss Andrea Stella had raised pre-season about the new regulations.
As part of the raft of regulation changes for Miami, a "low-power start detection system" was in place, whereby those cars with low accleration will be subject to an automatic deployment of the MGU-K to provide a boost in power.
Previously, cars could not use electrical energy below 50kph, thus relying solely on the ICE power for the start and launch sequence, with further tweaks ensuring that cars cannot reach the grid with low levels of electrical charge.
However, New Zealander Lawson feels that risks will always be associated with standings starts.
"I mean, yes, I guess in some way, but you can still stall on the grid in other categories and have a pretty good, big accident," Lawson told media, including RacingNews365.
"I think you can't eliminate the risk of everything, but something like that was out of my control - and that's what needs to be eliminated and what we're trying to do.
"So there is always going to be a risk, but when you have something that is outside of your control, something which is a failure or an issue, if we can eliminate those, that's the main thing."
Originally published by RacingNews365 —
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