Please understand that my following comments are not directed at any one flagman or track. The hardest thing to do on an original start is to keep the two front row cars side by side until they reach the starting line. The best solution to this problem that I have ever seen is known as a "Delaware" start. On a Delaware start the pole car is alone in the front row with the no. 2 & 3 starters side by side in row two, 4 & 5 starters in row three, and so on. The pole car watches the flagman and everyone else watches the car in front of them. The green is thrown not before the pole car enters the front straight. No passing until you hit the starting line. It works very well in putting a stop to jumping starts and therefore having to call back starts which, as Superduke alluded to, causes many wrecks. It's different so no doubt will meet with resistance but it does work.