About a year ago, after an update, all of my racing starts changed from stationary to running starts. Is there any way to start a race using a stationary start rather than a running start?
Nope, PD made it that way to counter the awful AI. Their idea obviously that if you start in a rolling start further behind it'll take you longer to pass them into first.
That rolling start that you need to overcome is kind of annoying. At first I was like "dude, my lap times are better, but I still lost?", but I accepted that the AI needs to cheat to beat me...haha.