The FIA has confirmed that it will use electronic sensors installed on the outside of the kerbs at certain corners around the Hungaroring this weekend in a bid to catch anyone gaining an unfair advantage by running wide.
The track limits argument has grown recently with several drivers in Austria using an excessive amount of kerb – often with all four wheels over the white line – which resulted in several incidents including suspension failure due to their height.
In a bid to stop that happening, track limits were strictly enforced at the British Grand Prix, with running wide at certain corners penalised with deleted times. However race control struggled to monitor every car and every corner.
This weekend, the FIA have installed sensors at Turns 4 and 11 to monitor track limits as Charlie Whiting doesn't feel the kerbs are enough of a deterrent at those particular corners.
"As the run-off areas behind the kerbs have been set at the same height as the kerbs themselves, the required deterrent is therefore not present," Whiting said in a note issued to the teams.
"With this in mind we have installed loops 1.6 metres from the track edge which will alert us when a car has all four wheels off the track in these two locations."
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