McLaren demanding solutions following Oscar Piastri’s monitor limits violation at Austrian GP

At the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix final Formula 1 season, monitor limits had been a large a part of the story. Lap instances being deleted for the violation dominated the whole race weekend and even led to an official protest from Aston Martin, who argued that race officers didn’t catch each occasion of the violation.

Race promoters on the Red Bull Ring took steps to mitigate the problem forward of this yr’s Austrian Grand Prix, putting in gravel traps round Turns 9 and 10 to attempt to dissuade drivers from operating huge at these sections of the monitor, and even including one other characteristic: An artificial intelligence system to monitor cars as they rocket across the monitor. Fans watching this weekend may need seen a brand new pale blue line across the circuit, put in to assist the AI system catch violations.

Despite the very best efforts of the race officers in Austria, we nonetheless have a monitor limits situation to debate, and probably a protest from a crew relating to them for the second-straight season.

In the closing levels of Q3, it appeared Oscar Piastri was set for a third-place begin in Saturday’s Austrian Grand Prix, as a powerful lap had him up in P3 because the seconds ticked down. But inside moments, Piastri was dropped all the way down to seventh, as his spectacular lap was deleted for you guessed it, exceeding monitor limits.

You can see the second in query right here:

Speaking with Sky Sports F1 following the session, Piastri vented his frustration.

“For me it’s embarrassing,” began the Australian driver. “We did all of this work for monitor limits, put gravel in locations, and I didn’t even go off the monitor. I stayed on the monitor. It was most likely my greatest Turn Six and it will get deleted. I don’t know why they’ve spent lots of of hundreds making an attempt to vary the final two corners if you nonetheless have corners you possibly can go off.

“That was most likely the very best Turn Six I took. I used to be proper to the restrict of the monitor, I feel that’s what everybody needs to see,” continued Piastri. “Again, we’ve got spent a lot effort making an attempt to do away with these issues. There isn’t any motive this nook needs to be a problem for monitor limits, particularly if you keep on the monitor, like I did, or not on the gravel.

“So, yeah, for me being the one one which has had that occur to me I’m most likely extra vocal about it proper now however I feel it’s embarrassing that you just see us pushing proper to the restrict of what we will do and one [centimeter] extra I’m within the gravel and finishing spoil my lap anyway – and it will get deleted.”

Piastri, nevertheless, appeared resigned to his destiny. “But, anyway, everybody else stored it within the monitor, I didn’t,” concluded the McLaren driver. “That’s the way it goes.”

Yet, his crew could not concur with that little bit of resignation. Following the session McLaren Team Principal Andrea Stella was noticed headed to talk with FIA officers relating to the choice:

Could we see a protest relating to monitor limits on the Austrian Grand Prix for the second season in a row?

We simply may.