Holy cow, I posted my agreement on the first page and then the whole thread went code red...

Anyhow I don't think it is change for the sake of change, I think it would benefit someone higher in the points by giving them some distance advantage and I agree with the 3 across into turn one being less of an issue.

If the outside is the advantageous line then why would there be an issue making this Pole? Who would want to switch back? If 4th place had the inside line on 3rd place but third got an equal start, 4th would still have to settle behind them unless they were going to be a banzai idiot which is not controllable by gridding or by anything else anyone can do unfortunately.

Will this stop T1 incidents? Of course not, but the small distance advantage would logically seem to spread the field a bit more than the current setup.