MELBOURNE : Formula One drivers welcomed wider grid slots from Sunday's Australian Grand Prix after Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso were penalised for missing their marks in the season's first two races.A spokesman for the governing FIA said on Thursday that the boxes would be 20cm wider for the race at
MELBOURNE : Formula One drivers welcomed wider grid slots from Sunday's Australian Grand Prix after Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso were penalised for missing their marks in the season's first two races.
A central guideline will also be trialled on Friday to see whether that helps drivers align their cars correctly on the starting grid. Both Alpine driver Ocon and Aston Martin's Alonso, the most experienced driver in Formula One history with a record 357 starts, were handed five second penalties for the breaches in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia respectively."You approach the box looking sideways, so you're not looking forward, so that's the biggest difficulty," he told reporters."But the 20cm will help I guess.
"But no one wants to get a penalty for the start. Also, I think the FIA doesn't want to have any problem with that, because there is no performance advantage, as long as you don't go too forward. Hopefully we avoid anything from now on."Mercedes' George Russell, a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, said a five-second penalty for being laterally out of place was"probably too harsh".
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