2025 Mexican Grand Prix - Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Oct 24 - 26

[Henk_v]

What is going off track then? If you get a track limit warning, should you put the car in reverse?

Part of the issue is that teams are no longer instructed on how to "mend" the situation, but need to assess themselves.
Teams will make sure they get the most out of it, but not enough for a penalty.

If you go off 2 seconds behind and rejoin 1 second behind, yiu gained one second, but it is unlikely to get a penalty.

The rule should be that you need to rejoint with at least more than the delta you had before the last braking zone, even if that means giving up another position. Alternatively, the delta at the start of the lap can be used, mitigating divebombs into T1

[Farnborough]

Applied to this first run through T1, either option, it would give same result / outcome as we witnessed.

Braking point status, or lacking a complete lap, startline separation 5mtr ? It all came out as we saw.

GR already lost out in run down to T1. What's more he took a bite out of Verstappen position (watch MV pov) off the start line, then loosing decent position within slipstream from then onward. He doesn't figure in the sort out ..... just complains about everything, as usual.

For reference, I thought it a good and very racy start, with the positions after "giveback" moves to be fair.