Formula 1 drivers say the new track limits rules which have been imposed for this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix are “very clear” after last year’s confusion.
At the 2021 grand prix, drivers were given different instructions regarding the enforcement of track limits at turn four during qualifying and the race. This caused some confusion and track limits remained a point of contention throughout the season.
However new FIA F1 race director Niels Wittich, one of two people who have replaced Michael Masi in the role during the off-season, has enforced a more straightforward policy this weekend. In his guidance to drivers before the weekend began, Wittich stated simply: “The white lines define the track edges.”
Drivers including Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen criticised last year’s arrangement as “confusing”. But the new policy won praise from Verstappen after qualifying yesterday, who described it as “very clear.”
Pole-winner Charles Leclerc concurred. “It has…