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Drivers warned over run-off kerbs ahead of Mexican GP

13:00, 26 Oct 2018

byJake Williams-Smith

FIA race director Charlie Whiting has reminded drivers of the track limit enforcement this weekend, with several areas of the circuit designed to penalise drivers for cutting or missing the corner. Kerbs and bollards have been placed around the track as a deterrent to drivers.

Ahead of the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday, Whiting addressed the fluorescent yellow kerbs at the first chicane and various other areas of the track that would be under heavy scrutiny for any advantages gained by cutting the track.

“For safety reasons, any driver who either passes to the left of or runs over the fluorescent yellow kerb sections on the driver’s left between Turns 1 and 2, or who passes to the left of the bollard on the apex of Turn 2, must re-join the track by driving around the end of the fluorescent yellow kerb sections on the driver’s right between Turns 2 and 3.

“If a driver overshoots the corner at Turn 4 there is a small road to the left of the asphalt area which leads back on to the track before Turn 6, please ensure that your drivers use this when necessary.

“Any driver whose car passes completely behind the kerb on the apex of Turn 8 must re-join the track by keeping wholly to the right of the fluorescent yellow kerb parallel to the track on the exit of the corner.

“Any driver whose car passes completely behind the kerb on the apex of Turn 11 must re-join the track by keeping to the right of the polystyrene block and then wholly to the left of the fluorescent yellow kerb parallel to the track on the exit of the corner.”