Track Limits until Silverstone
There's been a lot of debate about track limits, especially in regard to Kimi Antonelli so I thought I would look into it with the help of formula-timer, which helpfully provides data on track limits.
In Summary: Kimi Antonelli (24) has the second most track limits of all the drivers after Silverstone, behind Lance Stroll (36).
Sprint addition
No it didn't @lockedinabookstore , so below a look at that, but it just affirms the picture from before. Stroll gets up to 43 track limits and Antonelli up to 32.
This is hilarious to me because I kind of thought Kimi must be under additional scrutiny because he’s in the lead for the WDC at the moment. I’ve heard Lando flag to his engineer that Kimi’s over track limits a few times during races, so thought maybe that was part of it.
But Lance is arguably the worst driver on the grid despite having been in F1 quite a few years now, and rarely is someone behind him, so it seems that it isn’t about level of scrutiny, just one’s ability to colour within the lines 😅
Interesting point and I think it's worth to point out that drivers snitching on each other does not automatically count as track limits. Track limits as counted here, are deleted laps because all four wheels left the track which is measured with sensors and cameras. Potential infringements are detected through technology and then investigated and when found to be accurate the lap gets deleted. Same for everyone.
I won't go and say there is never a mistake in allocating track limits but it's an 'objective' system which doesn't care for who ignores the rules and does not focus on a single driver more.
