Firstly, the number of cameras which are used to facilitate the monitoring of track limits by marshals has been increased in certain problem areas. Several track edges have also been made narrower and replaced by grass, a change which can be noted at turns 6, 13, 14 and 15.
A fake gravel trap
“There are places where it is difficult. If you race MotoGP and F1 on the same track, one will want gravel in an area where the other won’t, says promoter Bobby Epstein. You can’t have both.”
“We can’t cut up the track and put gravel on it, then turn it over and hope that it remains waterproof when there is clay underneath, he continues. So there are challenges, one way or the other. »
Words which justify the latest novelty that it will be possible to see in ten days on the Austin route: the exit of turn 11 will be equipped with a false gravel trap.
A solution which discourages drivers who venture there, which has already been tested on other circuits. This invention appeared in Formula 1 during the 2022 edition of the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort.
