The FIA had adviced the Red Bull Ring to install gravel traps for this year's AustrianGP, but its recommendation was turned down by the circuit management: F1
Formula 1 race director Niels Wittich specifically advised the Red Bull Ring that gravel traps should be added to the final corners this year to help avoid track limits problems.However, that recommendation, which was made immediately after the 2022 Austrian Grand Prix, was rejected by circuit bosses who elected instead to keep the same configuration of kerbs and run off.
Dealing with the track limits has always been a tricky thing at the Red Bull Ring because of the nature of the layout, and previous attempts to use sausage kerbs have been long abandoned because of safety concerns following a number of accidents. In the report he made a clear recommendation that small gravel traps should be added at those corners to help act as a natural deterrent that would avoid any major track limits problem.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said F1 had made itself look “amateurish” with so many penalties handed out, and concurs that gravel appears to be the best solution. “The problem is it is very difficult as drivers, because they cannot see the white lines in the car, so you are purely doing it on feel.
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