F1 track limits explained: the white line is the edge of the track, kerbs don’t count, and all four wheels over it means you’ve left the track. In practice and qualifying the lap is deleted; in the race, repeated offences bring a black-and-white warning flag, then time penalties.
At the 2026 United States Grand Prix, Lando Norris’s Q3 lap of 1:34.379 was deleted at Turn 19, dropping him from sixth to eighth, one of six lap times deleted in that session. At Miami 2026, Alex Albon’s SQ1 lap was reported only after SQ2 had started, so his SQ1 lap and all his SQ2 times were deleted: classified 19th. At the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix, the FIA received more than 1,200 track-limit reports in one race and gave 12 penalties after it.
Should a lap count if only a few centimetres are over the line?
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