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“They will know where the limit is. That’s what they want and what they have asked for. They will get feedback, they will feel it when they get close to the gravel, and if they do dip a wheel onto the gravel it will penalise them because the car will be slower.
“It’s a natural deterrent and that has been the number one request from the drivers. It takes away any temptation to explore the limits because there is no gain anymore.
“If it’s just a line or just asphalt, drivers and teams will always go to the last millimetre because you can. But when you run over the gravel, it’s impossible to be faster.”
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That all make sense. And what’s this I hear about an additional blue line being added, too?
You’ve got good intel! As the kerb width at the Red Bull Ring is two metres and there wasn’t enough time to remove the kerb and switch it for something similar to what was installed in China this year (a one metre kerb and then gravel), the FIA have artificially shortened the width of the kerb by moving the white line onto the kerb.
Now as the kerbs are red and white, that makes it tricky to see the white line clearly – so there is also an additional blue line behind just to make it easy for marshals, and those working in the FIA Remote Control Centre and Race Control, to identify when a driver is over the limit.
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