POLL: Where Is The Track Boundary In Your Opinion?

[Vitzio]

The track boundary for me has always been the white lines.

 

[Louielouie3]

Depends, but some leagues I race consider the rumble strip part of the racing surface, some don't. Some of those leagues require two tires on the surface at all times, others require 4. It all depends on interpretation and who's rules you're playing by.

 

[Chqr]

the barrier.

 

[Skython]

I disagree with the link's idea, it should be one half one tarmac, other on apex, any more only by mistake, or on a massive apex on an exit. Any more and it's cheating

 

[Big Ron]

In my opinion, it is ok to have two wheels over the white line on curbs, when you enter a corner. On exit, it is ok to get completely on curbs with two or four wheels. Because there isn´t really an advatage on exit in both versions and the real racers do that too....best example is first corner in Hockenheim / Germany.

To cut corners on entry with four wheels on grass or with four wheels behind white line is cheating.

 

[Tired Tyres]

I disagree. The run off that drivers use at the first corner at Hockenheim and after the last chicane at Monza in the real world is allowed because the marshals says it means you "go further" than if you respected the boundary of the track. This I don't agree with as it actually allows much greater exit speed and therefore give you an advantage over a driver who is respecting the limits of the track as defined by the white lines and is therefore, in my opinion, cheating. The fact that pretty much every driver does it does not make it right.

 

[Big Ron]

I disagree. The run off that drivers use at the first corner at Hockenheim and after the last chicane at Monza in the real world is allowed because the marshals says it means you "go further" than if you respected the boundary of the track. This I don't agree with as it actually allows much greater exit speed and therefore give you an advantage over a driver who is respecting the limits of the track as defined by the white lines and is therefore, in my opinion, cheating. The fact that pretty much every driver does it does not make it right.

If it wouldn´t be allowed, the marshals and race commitee would punish the action. Through the fact, that the run over the curbs at turn 1 at Hockenheim destabalise your car to eventually loose it and even could damage it, makes it ok for most people to do it and not to punish it.

Nearly the same in Monza here.

 

[TheCracker]

The boundary is the bits your car bounces off.

 

[Schrodes]

Two wheels on the ripple strip and two wheels on the grass would be my boundary. At Adelaide this year V8 Supercars had a sensor off the track at the turn one chicane. It was positioned so that if a car was over that sensor Race Control knew the car had all four tyres on the wrong side of the ripple strip. Drivers got a warning if they triggered the sensor and if they triggered the sensor a third time they got a drive through penalty. It's what you're used to I suppose. No-one in Australian motorsport has been penalised for going further off the track on the outside as far as I can recall and no-one has been penalised for having two tyres on the ripple strip and two off the track on the inside, unless a Judge of Fact or Race Rontrol got it wromg.

 

[Skiddy]

well, the white line is at the edge of the curb. If you cross the line, you end up on a curb.

Ergo, 2 wheels over the line (on the curb) is ok. Anything over that is not ok.

The rule should be something like this: 3 or more wheels ON the curb = disqualification.