Fernando Alonso believes F1’s ongoing debate around track limits at the start of grands prix could be fixed – but only if he commits the offence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Mexico, a number of drivers, including Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc, simply cut Turn 1, missed Turn 2 completely before rejoining at Turn 3, having gained a number of positions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some drivers, including Racing Bulls’ Liam Lawson – who was eliminated in the Mexico chaos after being rammed by Carlos Sainz, opting to cut the corner – believe F1 should simply revert to gravel in run-off areas to prevent drivers cutting corners at the start of grands prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is something Alonso has long called for, including back to the Russian Grand Prix at Sochi, where the tarmac run-off area provided an easy escape route – one Alonso exploited back in 2021, as he explained his solution to ending the ongoing debate.<\/p>\n
When asked what a proposed solution to the problem could be, Alonso wrly told media, including RacingNews365: “Do it myself.<\/p>\n
“When I do it myself, I tried many times in Sochi to raise the point: ‘Why don’t we do the corner in Sochi, but do it in Baku or in Monaco, at Sainte Devote, the first corner, there is never any problem.<\/p>\n
“We all go through [Turn 1] in Sochi, where there is a wall, and then everyone was cutting, and then one year, I just didn’t break for Turn 1.<\/p>\n
“I was then P3 at the exit of the corner, and for the following year, it was not allowed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So it will be [banned] for 2027, I guess, because if I do it in ’26, they will only change Mexico for ’27.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso believes F1’s ongoing debate around track limits at the start of grands prix could be fixed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-282462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}