The FIA has revealed details for the Mexican Grand Prix regarding track limits, DRS zones, circuit changes and more.
According to the FIA Race Director’s announcement for the F1 Mexican Grand Prix, the white line will remain the course boundary, but the situation could change if this happens after Friday’s race, as we saw at the United States Grand Prix. However, a note has been added to help you rejoin safely.
This concerns the turn 11 runoff area. “A driver whose car passes completely behind the red and white curb at the apex of Turn 11 must return to the course by first moving to the right of his Styrofoam block arrangement” and then parallel to it. all the way to the left of his second Styrofoam block. “At the exit of the curve,” he FIA explained.
As for the DRS zone, the detection point of the first zone is 70 m after turn 9, but its activation occurs 80 m after turn 11. The second and third detection zones are located at the exit of Turn 15 when activated. The zone is 165 m from turn 17.
At the same time, the third-party activation zone is 115 m from turn 3. Now let’s move on to changing the route. Changes have been minimal since the last event. One is “Left TecPro Distance between Turns 4 and 5” and the other is “Left Combination Curb Distance of Turn 4”.
As far as the FIA stewards are concerned, this committee is headed by Garry Connelly, supported by Loic Bacarene, Danny Sullivan and Alfonso Horgos Trigueros. In other news, Ferrari announced that Carlos Sainz was absent from Thursday’s media day due to illness.
He will be at the Ferrari circuit on Friday just for the FP1 session. “Carlos is not feeling well and will not be on track today. There is nothing serious so we are hopeful that he will be back tomorrow and ready to jump in the car.” he said in a short statement.
Full note from the FIA Race Director: https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/decision-document/2023 Mexico City Grand Prix – Race Director’s Event Notes.pdf p>
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