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Drivers warned over Turn 8/9 chicane cutting

Drivers have been warned that they must re-join the track in a certain manner if they run deep at Turn 8/9 during this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix. The tricky final right-left chicane has caused controversy in the past, with higher kerbs, and a polystyrene block, installed in recent years, in order to deter corner-cutting. This regulation has now been extended to the Turn 8/9 chicane, where gravel on the outside of the corner has been replaced by asphalt run-off for this year’s event. “Any driver who fails to negotiate Turn 9 by using the track, and who passes completely to the left of the orange kerb element on the apex of the corner, must keep completely to the left...
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