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[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Why are track limits so strange in racing? Why not just make the white line the limit period. Rich the white line at all, you're out of the track. It's so strange...

[-] Chup@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

In MotoGP racing, it's handled quite well. They cancel laps for qualifying and during a race, you get an official warning. You do it again with the warning up, you get a 'long lap', which is a small track-detour. Makes you lose a few seconds and with close competitors, also places. It's an immediate punishment during the race for 'touching the green' - the area on the corner exit outside the kerb. Touching kerb is fine, touching green area is a no-no.

It happens every race to a few riders and it's a fuck around and find out event for people who have a warning up on their name.

"If a rider goes outside track limits during a Free Practice, Practice or qualifying session – onto those areas outside the track surface that are painted green – it’s an easy one: the lap is cancelled."

"[...]if a rider goes onto the green area three times, they’ll get a Long Lap penalty."

https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2023/08/17/explained-track-limits/475875

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