Well, 'on the limit is on the limit', not over it, after all... AusGP 🇦🇺 F1
Max Verstappen concedes he was on the limit in his grid box when he lined up for the final restart at the Australian GP but, as he put it, “on the limit is on the limit”.
On what was already a chaotic day in Melbourne, social media lit up after the third and final restart when fans questioned whether Verstappen was out of position in his grid box. This year the regulation governing starting positions was amended to state that a driver has to have all four wheels within the front and sides of their grid position marker. If they don’t, that’s a five-second penalty of which there have already been two issued this season.
Verstappen, though, didn’t become number three as photographs seeming to show he was outside the limits were nothing but a trick of the camera angle, with the driver safe by millimetres.“To be honest with you,” he said after winning Sunday’s race, “I think I braked a bit late and then I lost my reference a bit but then I looked and I was like I still have a little bit more space.“But on the limit is on the limit, it’s not over the limit.
“The sun was also quite difficult at the end, the visibility especially into Turn 1, Turn 3 was quite tough.”
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