A car with all four wheels across the white line will not necessarily be penalised.
CW: It’s not straightforward. The white lines are part of the track, so if any part of the car remains on
a white line it is still using the track. Theoretically, this is the limit. If all four wheels cross the white
line, then you’ve left the track. Cars do leave the track and you cannot penalise every driver that does
so. Cars will not be penalised for that type of infraction providing they come back on safely and do
not gain an advantage.
Turn Four here (at Albert Park) and Turn Four at the Nürburgring, for example, are corners where,
because of the layout of the track it’s extremely hard to find a suitable means to deter drivers from
crossing the white line. At the Nürburgring we have effectively given up on that and said we’ll just
have to allow drivers to keep doing it.
We have, however, put a kerb in both here and at the Nürburgring to deter them. That has resolved
the situation to some extent. Last year, we felt it wasn’t quicker to go over to that part of the circuit
and therefore drivers were not gaining an advantage from doing so – though there are always
differences of opinion. Our opinion was that the high kerb, the dirty run‐off area and the line for the
following corner precluded a driver going over there from accruing any advantage, and therefore it
isn’t something we’re going to get too excited about.
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