McLaren boss Zak Brown believes F1 will never repeat the farce of Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix post-race repositioning due to track limit violations. More than 1,200 track limit violations were recorded by the stewards during the race, making the outcome of the event, which Aston Martin protested, provisional.
In the end, penalties were applied, the positions outside the top three were swapped, and the revised standings were announced late at night. Brown said the fix and the announcement of results too late were unacceptable and would never happen again. “This kind of thing should never happen again. Five hours into the race there’s no way we’re going to have those changes and penalties,” Brawn told Reuters on Monday. “What happened yesterday was definitely not ideal. It states the obvious, but it has no long-term consequences because I don’t think it will happen again,” Brawn said at the track in Austria. He suggested that the driver’s extreme vulnerability to limits was a circuit-specific problem. “I’ve never seen anything like it before, so I don’t think this is an ongoing problem at other circuits,” the stewards said in their post-race report. and advised the circuit to add gravel traps at exit 10. In fact, after last year’s race at the Red Bull Ring, where the track limits were already controversial, FIA race director Niels Wittig sent a letter to the circuit’s owner, a Red Bull subsidiary, telling them that the 9th and 10th corners would be closed. They had suggested adding a little gravel to deter the driver from pulling too far. However, the request was not heeded. Perhaps that’s because the Red Bull Ring has indicated its intention to comply with MotoGP’s safety requirement of an asphalt-only run-off area. But it is likely to put more pressure on the track to heed requests to place gravel traps at certain corners designated by the FIA. “I think there needs to be some kind of deterrent, like a gravel pavement or something to make people hesitate to drive there,” Red Bull F1 team principal Christian Horner said after Sunday’s race. “The problem is that as a driver it’s very difficult. You can’t see the white lines on the car, so you just have to drive purely by feel.” “There needs to be more deterrence so that drivers don’t gravitate to that part of the circuit.” “
2023-07-05 02:42:35
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