Verstappen's aggressive positioning of his car for the AustralianGP restart has raised some eyebrows, but the Red Bull driver was doing nothing wrong. Explained: F1
Going by the wording of F1's Sporting Regulations in relation to where drivers must line up, Verstappen was clearly okay as the matter revolves around the placement of tyres.
It states that an offence will be deemed to have taken place if:"any part of the contact patch of its front tyres outside of the lines at the time of the start signal." This was therefore a case of Verstappen being absolutely on the limit with his positioning of the car to try to give himself as much of a head start as possible in the critical run to the first corner.
Speaking about the matter afterwards, Verstappen explained that he had pulled further forward after his initial stop because he felt he had more room – but never believed he had overstepped the mark.
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