Well, no. The ultimate cause was the alleged best race car drivers in the world can't reliably manage something - restarts after the safety car - that
redneck farmers, bootleggers and the occasional Californian can usually manage just fine
But isn't their restart procedure inherently different as the actual "start" is invoked by the flag man, not by the leader decision on when to go?
F1 having a light on the start line that is green, but not allow people to actually go full speed is stupid.
The other thing the drivers seemed to forget was that you couldn’t overtake before the start finish line anyway so it would’ve been better to hold station Behind whoever was in front... then again I’m a non race driver sat at home from the comfort of my phone. Haha!
But if you drop back and hold station, when the leader decides to "go" you are then several car lengths behind, and at a disadvantage to overtake once you cross the line. Drivers tend to accelerate and decelerate to try to time the fact that when the leader goes, they are in the accelerate part of the cycle giving them a slight advantage.
What you really need is to be all going the same constant speed, with the same distance between you all, and then have an outside trigger that starts it. Maybe have a system like the pit speed limiter that comes on when the safety cars goes off, but limit you to say 120mph, and then have race control press a button to turn it off once the leader reaches the line. Granted, you still run the problem of the leader creating a tow for everyone, but to be honest that is much better than the leader getting a flyer and ending up 2 seconds ahead by the first corner.