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Drivers warned over Sochi run-off, backing up

Formula 1 drivers have been warned over their etiquette at Sochi Autodrom’s Turn 2 run-off, and in preparing for a qualifying lap, at this weekend’s Russian Grand Prix. Incidents have occasionally occurred at the first heavy braking zone of the lap with drivers running wide and then cutting the apex of the left-hand kink that leads into Turn 3. Drivers have been warned that if they run wide at Turn 2, and pass to the left of the orange apex sausage kerb, they must “re-join the track by driving around the array of blocks, before re-joining the track at Turn 3.” Should a driver run wide at Turn 2 then their lap time will be invalidated and multiple offences will be reported to the...
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