Why Do Formula 1 Curbs Exist?

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I have driven over THOUSANDS of kerbs in my racing career and they are different at every track.
You need to treat each kerb with respect as some can send you into the barrier if you get too greedy while others can be used to your advantage.
There are so many types of kerb, but I have never really stopped to think why they are so different or even why they are there in the first place.
So let’s get into it
There are five types of kerb I can think of:
They are:
Painted - these are straightforward. They are lines that are just painted onto the track with nonslip paint.
Standard - These are the most common. They are slightly raised, made of serrated metal and bolted to the ground.
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Carpets - Not technically a “kerb” but part of the kerb structure and used more frequently in F1, so worth the mention. They are made of artificial grass, usually outside of the standard kerb. And are there to punish you if you go too wide, as they are VERY slippery, especially in the wet.
The problem with these are they have started to be paved and painted green to look like grass but aren’t anywhere near as slippery.
And as Mario Andretti once said - “if you pave it, I will drive over it.” Or as NASCAR drivers say - “if it’s grey - it’s okay”.
I would have to agree with Mario there - what’s the point of having paved green concrete? Just stick some grass there - if it isn’t broken, dont fix it.
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@fycfyc1 Год назад

Funny how kerbs were designed to prevent cutting corners but ended up being part of the racing line 😂

@Legend.Cam42 Год назад

@@glitter_fart did you even listen to the video 😂 there’s used for both now

@Legend.Cam42 Год назад

@@glitter_fart 8:03

@EternalNico1 Год назад

@@Legend.Cam42 you don't need to watch this video to know that

@IgnitionP Год назад

why do you spell it like that

@XenTownsend Год назад

@@IgnitionP because he's 🤢 british

@groundedgaming Год назад

Wow! So it was Marlboro that made the kerbs red and white! Amazing...

@darransmith32 Год назад

Not the first time. Coca Cola made Father Christmas's uniform red and white back in the 1920's and it's become the "traditional" way of depicting him since (he originally was portrayed as having black or brown clothing).

@tippyc2 Год назад

@@darransmith32 Coke made him old and fat too, not just the suit.

@MommyKhaos Год назад

@@tippyc2 TBF Sinter Klaus was almost always depicted as older due to when Saint Nicholas did a lot of his gift giving he was an older man. Of course Sinter Klaus is a combo of Germanic, Nordic, and in general "Pagan" (AKA anything that isn't Christian) winter traditions combined with Saint Nicholas. And modern day Santa Claus is just a Capitalist Idea to make people (especially those with lower incomes) feel like they need to spend large amounts of money to show "love". Essentially, USA being good ole' USA.

@lucastubing994 Год назад

@Damar Fadlan american?

@mrj3217 Год назад

NASCAR had the Winston Cup as a sponsor for decades that was a R&J Reynolds tobacco manufacturer. At the track they would literally give away cartons of cigarettes to people . That was crazy too.

@SergioAlbertoRomero Год назад

Bummed you didn't mention the hyper abrasive paint in France. I think that should be used more universally. Even if it doesn't COMPLETELY stop a car. It can scrub the tires enough to warrant caution in tight situations. Great vid regardless!

@junyutan2172 Год назад

Really is next best thing or arguably better yhan gravel

@Pandamasque Год назад

It does absolutely nothing to prevent gaining an advantage. It's purpose is to slow down cars skidding towards the barriers. Remember, the current iteration of Le Castellet called "Paul Ricard HTTT" was never designed to host racing events. HTTT stands for High Tech Test Track. For years it was used for testing only, being essentially the safest track in the world, if you want to test an expensive road or race car and take it to its limits with no fear of writing it off. HTTT began hosting races only around a decade ago and owners began adding spectator areas.

@joshuachandra6677 Год назад

I don't like them I think grass should be there drivers should be punished for overstepping track limits

@juliusfaller5585 Год назад

Paul Ricard has huge problems with track limits because of that design. Gravel is way better; more punishing and slows the car down better.

@junyutan2172 Год назад

@@juliusfaller5585 also like the guys said, the f1 layout is literally a testing layout

@NeumannKlaus Год назад

Sausage curbs are just awful.

@adamalfredsson373 Год назад

They must be banned, period.

@antoniohagopian213 Год назад

They are delicious

@Medevah Год назад

Agreed.

@DrpToast8 Год назад

Not according to TrackMania

@R9naldo Год назад

They should have just kept slightly higher angle kerbs. Since 1998 they've been flattening kerbs way too much to the point that now most "kerbs" are just painted tarmac. And then they add sausage kerbs anyway to launch the car??? And removing gravel and sand traps too for the very unappealing astro turf. Very confusing

@beardybrowsingdude Год назад

Apologies if I missed it, but a shout out to Abbie Eaton and the work she is doing to try to remove these dangerous kerbs would be appropriate in this video.

@pdoyled Год назад

Nope you didn’t miss it, I was waiting too for him to mention Abbie but disappointed that it didn’t come up, and it happened only last year!

@astralfields Год назад

@@paperplane1471 What an incredibly ignorant opinion. Sausage kerbs become a problem when a driver loses control of their car, inadvertently crashes into the kerb, and then gets launched into the air. Replacing sausage kerbs with gravel would have the same effect of limiting the track since it has no traction, nobody wants to drive over that. But if a car gets onto the gravel anyway it will slide into a wall or even a safe runoff area. This would greatly limit the potential for injury and reduce damage to the car/track.

@JohnnyDoeDoeDoe Год назад

@paper plane We don't need roll cages, helmets, or fire marshals, since racing is perfectly safe as long as drivers don't make mistakes right? There are countless examples of sausage curbs launching cars, let's not be naive about how dangerous they can be. Drivers make mistakes, especially in poor conditions and during overtakes, those mistakes shouldn't be lethal or put spectators at risk.

@hkr667 Год назад

The only reason sausage curbs were ever added is because drivers categorically cheat and drive off track. And since the FIA has no spine and doesn't dare penalize drivers, they get away with it. Sausage curbs can be dangerous in some situations, but I am not against them. If racing drivers would act as adults they wouldn't exist in the first place.

@DerpasourasX Год назад

@@paperplane1471 the issue isn’t drivers accelerating over them the issue is when you slide out before the turn and have no control then hit it and get launched into the air causing unnecessary damage

@markvicferrer Год назад

I watched circuit racing for years, and then started watching rallying & was blown away at how deeply they can cut corners due to their setups. It'd be fun to watch a rally car tackle circuits & use unorthodox racing lines that would only be feasible to them.

@duttyburger6528 Год назад

Ive done that on assetto corsa, in the right places, you can really take a liberty with your line!

@JoshuaC923 Год назад

Rally cross then i guess

@unthenner5519 Год назад

Well you would just cut every corner in that case and not even bother with the circuit.

@Atlas.Brooklyn Год назад

@@unthenner5519 be real. there's a difference between driving onto the grass and ignoring it all; and still respecting track limits but being able to straddle curves and such much easier.

@DasParedes Год назад

rally or rally cross ?? the first are on roads, the second on specific " "tracks" " with laps

@bruhbruh4871 Год назад

Sausage curbs should no exist. The FIA says they always push for safety yet there introduction has caused nothing but damage and injuries and nothing has been done to get rid of them

@TheRacingBoy1 Год назад

About the paved green concrete, I think it's done because the grass never get the chance to grow with all the wheels cutting the corner. The dirt gives a cheap effect on tv, so they paved it and painted it green (sometimes with sponsors) to have a better look.

@astralfields Год назад

That makes a lot of sense.

@kevinxodemonth Год назад

Astroturf, or artificial grass then. Would be disadvantageous when driven over, but quickly replaceable should it become too worn or damaged.

@Appletank8 Год назад

Couldn't they have green plastic instead?

@dakdewolf Год назад

Literally in this video he mentions fake plastic turf, why not use that instead? If it's concrete and flat, it is going to be used as part of the track (even at the expense of penalties sometime). Green roads don't have enough of a downside so they get used for overtaking and just generally taking alternate lines, so it should just be road with the kerb after it, or be replaced with turf.

@blinkin78 Год назад

@@kevinxodemonthand you think driving over AstroTurf won’t damage it like grass?

@maximilianschroder5206 Год назад

Sausage curbs are there to make the cars flip over and kill the driver

@CaptainSteve777 Год назад

Kerbs keep the track from breaking down at the edges. Without kerbs the tracks would be much harder to maintain.

@WhiskyCanuck Год назад

As I recall, a lot of the carpet & paved runoff area (as an extension of the kerb) was put in to replace gravel and grass because the gravel traps in particular would take too many cars out of the race. Being less punishing and having more cars stay in the race to the end despite driver errors was a design objective.

@counterfit5 Год назад

Gravel has its own issues with causing rolls, and cars sometimes skipping over the top.

@RobertBarton86 Год назад

Good point. There is also the debris caused by gravel which can get dragged onto the track.

@banana-ui2qd Год назад

no that happens as the tracks arent solely used for f1, alot of tracks are used for moto gp and other series where gravel and kerbs are really bad

Год назад

Barrichello's accident should have been looked at waaaay more carefully, it was at the same weekend that we lost Senna and Ratzenberger

@counterfit5 Год назад

Also had a mechanic taken out by a tire flying off a Minardi.

@JakeSteam Год назад

2:03 "[sausage kerbs] have gained a reputation for being too dangerous and launching kerbs into the sky" Now THAT I'd like to see!

@GoingRampant92 Год назад

Gotta love Nascar. "rubbin's racin" "If it's grey it's okay" So simple, so effective.

@TGXB Год назад

Launching curbs into the sky 😱

@RickvB_ Год назад

Really nice to see parts of the footage I've shot (and myself) being featured in the video!

@groundedgaming Год назад

Yes, when I saw that 360 of an F1 car, I was blown away! So glad to have you conviniently here for me to find more videos. Thanks!

@RickvB_ Год назад

@@groundedgaming Awesome to hear that! I will try to make more next year so stay tuned!

@TaisinViper Год назад

Barichello was so hardcore he was fist pumping during that crash

@hafidzalfarizi4723 Год назад

Actually he died during that crash

@MisterJohnny42 Год назад

@@hafidzalfarizi4723 No he did not

@Th3cosmic_ Год назад

@@hafidzalfarizi4723 actually he didn't 💀

@MarkGreenhall Год назад

Sure I’ve heard the reason why the Silverstone curbs are black and white (rather than red and white) is to save on the cost of maintaining them - they only really need to paint the white. If that is true, that is genius 😂

@tturi2 Год назад

sounds British lol

@Olivyay Год назад

I'm not sure about that. Previously in the 90s and 00s Silverstone used plain beige curbs in many corners (Hungaroring did too), which I'm sure is even cheaper.

@HorsesizedPony Год назад

This video further increased my knowledge and interest in the sport. It certainly didn't curb my enthusiasm.

@groundedgaming Год назад

Bah dum tsh!

@wobblysauce Год назад

Carpets are for less track maintenance and safety as a number of laps with people going over removing material, leading to an item getting stuck on the other side

@monty11bravo Год назад

I am pretty new to this channel, I enjoy the information! Amazing to watch the evolution of everything I ever wanted to know about in F1 to curbs! Thank you!

@flyingphoenix113 Год назад

In a world with advanced telemetry, lasers, and more camera angles than we can utilize, surely the age of danger-inducing curbs should be over. Just police it electronically. If the penalty is sufficiently harsh, the drivers will quit cutting them. Simple as. 🤷‍♂️

@joelambert7128 Год назад

Yet when stewards issue warnings and penalties for track limits violations the viewers complain. There is no perfect solution because any run-off that isn't tarmac (including and especially gravel) ultimately represents a safety compromise for the benefit of "the show".

@KaitouKaiju Год назад

You still need to be able to physically see it to avoid it as well as keep the car from causing damage to the track

@smallbutdeadly931 Год назад

It's crazy to me that cutting corners in some racing sports is something they are trying to stop, while in others it doesn't matter nearly as much

@novanityinamari Год назад

i think its more about the cars. for example imagine if drivers could cut turn 19 at cota in F1. they would dip wheels into the grass and spin or crash. which would be a safety hazard. not to mention it might harm the racing.

@Kraken9911 Год назад

In WRC cutting every corner possible is the goal. They only soft restrict it in the "show off sections" where the driver has to take odd lines to force fancy drifts. The rest of the time the limitation is rivers, huge rocks, and deep holes as the natural kerb.

@vaenii5056 Год назад

@@Kraken9911 At least for Colin McRae it was a goal. 😄 How much drivers cut in WRC depends on how much they are willing to take risks. Rallies last an entire weekend so you have to know when to push and when not to.

@tissuepaper9962 Год назад

@@vaenii5056even without cutting, modern rally cars are astoundingly quick. People talk up Group B but modern drivers are going just as fast with way less power. It helps when your torque curve looks like a rectangle, but still.

@Olivyay Год назад

Incidentally, Barrichello's crash was also caused by hitting a very high curb that sent his car flying. FIA started to mandate a lower height limit for curbs the next year. Also, it's not F1 but you should have included pics from Champ Cars riding the chicane curbs at Surfers Paradise in the 90s, it was impressive.

@tomnewham1269 Год назад

Even better is the V8 Supercars driving over the same curbs.

@Banyo__ Год назад

Those sausage kerbs are nuts. I refer to them as launching pads in what they can do if you hit them wrong. I am a fan of the kitty litter traps because its quite obvious when you violate track limits however, they are a bit unfair if you are nudged into them by other drivers but then again, any driver nudging you over (like Lance) could send you equally airborne or ruin your race anyway.

@jamdc2000 Год назад

I am still amazed, I became an f1 fan since 1994 when I was about 7 or 8 years old with the news of the death of Senna, have seen almost all seasons since, however, I am now and have never been interested in smoking, even though f1's sponsors have done almost everything to do so

@NorfTec Год назад

Question: why do we have curbs? Answer: no go or pogo

@s2t4i6n9e Год назад

Kerbs only exist because grass doesn't hold up well under stress. At the the start its quite slippery and if you put a tire onto the grass on the exit of a corner, you'll exit the circuit and hit the wall. However, as the grass wears away leaving dirt, this becomes less of an issue and the corners' radius expands. At Monaco, the track ends where the walls begin leaving no safety margin. If, however, you penalize drivers five seconds for every kerb they use, they'll actually stay on the track.

@bipolarminddroppings Год назад

Whoever thought sausage curbs were a good safety device must have gone to the Elon Musk School for Geniuses.

@BannedByMe Год назад

Can you make a video on the crash between Max and Hamilton in Braizl.

@tesetreiiic45324 Год назад

Great content really interesting information on curbs, but music is too way aggressive.

@PrateekF1 Год назад

i love riding on the kerbs ..especially in spa,austria,monza n suzuka the kerbs in these tracks really provide a sense of grip and also i love the sound that they make

@vt6020 Год назад

Yeah. I never would have thought of thought that the kerbs are red and white because of Marlboro. I just thought it was to help the kerbs more visible.

@thegreathadoken6808 Год назад

6:36 Good lord that's some kinetic force

@crocman2cool Год назад

So close to 1 million 🙈

@bucknut2204 Год назад

You fucking done it my boy😂

@Funny_jokeman108 Год назад

Who would’ve thought u would then drive an f1 car

@Bane_Diesel Год назад

I never really thought about how curbs would feel to the driver until I got on track irl and I actually was surprised how different curbs feel and sound based on what car you are driving.

@holeshotshane5692 Год назад

6:36 HOLY CRAP!!! I've gone in to turns too hot before but god damn

@vsbaratinho Год назад

what was that? where when? looks like macau. edit: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zPDgL9iZ_4s.html

@404nobrakes Год назад

Curbs (like carpet) also prevent drivers from dragging dirt and gravel onto the track, which can be really dangerous.

@SpaceXplorer13 Год назад

I always thought that was its original purpose.

@falinestixiaolong9691 Год назад

6:36 WHAT IN TARNATION WAS THAT !? I saw the Aston Martin live at the 6h of Monza, horrifying, poor dude just lost his brakes and got satellized instantly. Punishing drivers for being greedy, I agree. But mistakes happen, and you shouldn't be punished by death or injury anyway. Fuck sausage kerbs.

@Fireheart318 Год назад

In GTA 5, people deliberately drive over curbs and other bumps to gain a speed boost. For some reason, compressing a car’s suspension makes it go faster… your guess is as good as mine lol

@EndHimRightly Год назад

Thank you for all the info! I've loved watching motorsports for a few years but everytime I watch one of your videos I learn so much and realize how much I don't know! (But want to learn)

@batgaming9648 Год назад

Instead of having sausage kerbs you could just invalidate lap times/hand out track limit warnings.

@Schizz_Popinov Год назад

V8 Supercars does it and it helps

@a.N.N.e.z Год назад

6:37 My God!!! Where did this happen?

@DaveBegotka Год назад

Us motorcycle road racers use curbs for jumps.....At IRP i used to jump one whole corner....lol

@abnfalcon3901 Год назад

6:36 Dude that was terrifyingly horrible 💀

@russelldevore212 Год назад

Sophia Floersch at the F3 Grand Prix in Macau. She is still out there driving, like a savage!

@SonOfGalactus Год назад

Wow, I really thought they were kinda like "rumble strips" on commuter roads. I thought it was to alert the driver of the edges, or that thy have hit the edge of the track/corner. I learned so much today!!!

@ACE_dll Год назад

Surprised you didn’t mention the Nurburing in this one. Still an interesting video.

@Olivyay Год назад

Mention what about the Nurburgring?

@jaybird7300 Год назад

New idea...try running a race and actually staying within the lines. Novel indeed.

@Chris.Davies Год назад

Protip: if your car doesn't have double wishbones, then stay the hell off the curbs! I have watched cars at track days break their suspension on the curbing at high speed, and the following crash (not an accident!) is always a pretty nasty one. The curbs are what you use when you are a professional racing driver, DRIVING SOMEONE ELSE'S CAR. Or on a simulator where destroying 13 billion dollars worth of GT3 RSRs at the 'ring is consequence free! :)

@PrinceofPwnage Год назад

Wheel bearings love kerbs for weekend HPDE

@scottmeredith3359 Год назад

The 6 Hours of Monza crash in 2022 is proof sausage kerbs needs to go

@thescranstation2notbetter509 Год назад

The green concrete or teeth kerbs are so pointless just put grass there ffs

@scote___ Год назад

While Alex Peroni walked away from the Monza crash, he also fractured his back.

@whiteknob7944 Год назад

It’s to give teams an excuse for when their cars sucks.

@c0ytoYT 10 дней назад

That’s why some f1 cars fly high on curbs

@eeehan77 5 месяцев назад

I remember the Alex Peroni "sausage kerb launch" incident very clearly especially after following Alex 's progress in F3 as a fellow Tasmanian. The relatively new halo concept almost certainly saved his life, or at worst a broken neck when the car flipped and landed on the external barrier. Alex needed significant time off to recover. I actually bumped into him not long after in an Attic of a bar and had a good chat with the young man. He was still wearing a back brace but hidden under his clothes which he gladly showed off. Even though I had never met him before he was very generous with his time. Albeit I knew his Dad Piero, as he was my manager in an office job for a couple of years when Alex was very young and had only just started karting.

@oddsandwindsocks5905 Год назад

Great insight here . But we all know that drivers always try and take the piss with track limits, as you said just gravel all the outside of flat kerbs to minimise crashing but finish a drivers race if exceeding the kerbs .

@Appletank8 Год назад

Tracks used for MotoGP can't really have gravel there, unfortunately. It'd need to be something easily applied and replaced.

@hexgraphica Год назад

Is there a safety advantage in having 2m wide kerbs? All they seem to do is to attract controversy in duels

@aubyyyy Год назад

Love a good kerb tbh

@dpheaslip Год назад

Thank you for this informational piece. Question: Don’t drivers lose traction on the kerbs, or because it’s on the inside wheels they don’t?

@Corvilux52 Год назад

You can but it's a calculated risk. Sometimes it gives you a better racing line through a section and helps you carry more speed off the exit, so the loss of grip is negated. As long as you don't overdo it.

@DirkFedermann Год назад

wait...... you told us in the video about the crash in F2 in Silverstone (which was at a chicane) and then you say at the end the sausage curbs should stay at chicanes?! Come on...

@jaden_kys Год назад

When you know the answer but you still watch it

@dukeboreham2782 Год назад

The incident that caused Dennis Hauger to fly into the side of Roy Nissany was Roys fault anyway. Karma is a bitch because the incident took both drivers out of that race

@DaniMacYo Год назад

To annoy F1 game players 😂

@Gretri17 Год назад

I don't understand the sausage curb at all. Just make it a sandbox like we do in America's Laguna Seca or something similar

@iBoss818 Год назад

FIA: Safety is our number 1 priority Also FIA: How can this kerb hurt anyone? It looks like a sausage

@mrj3217 Год назад

Great Video , I am suffering a lot with out any motorsports .

@motosessions Год назад

Respect for doing this whilst ill.

@ATEC101 Год назад

To all you 'just gravel it' experts. Spreading gravel all over corner exit is a 'SUPERB' solution for track limits and will 'DEFINTELY' increase safety for all following drivers. Try thinking before typing.

@ChuckyLarms Год назад

What’s a Kerb? Like Kerbal Space Program

@fetusmonkey1741 Год назад

Beyond the “cool curbs” I believe they should all be removed. If the point of them is to police track limits there’s no need for them anymore. We are living in the 21st century we have amazing cameras to watch and analyze such things. I mean look at the offside camera tech for this years World Cup. We certainly don’t need curbs that launch people into the air at 170 mph “to police track limits” anymore.

@46harry Год назад

Read this as "why do forumla 1 cars exist?" And thought, yeah, thats a good question

@Amm17ar Год назад

I dont mind kerbs, but when theyre launching cars into the air and turning them into 200mph missles.....theres a problem. The huge sausage kerbs are just ridiculous and completely unsafe and theres no reason to have them that big when you have and can impliment technology to watch for corner cutting.... Its much safer to do it in retrospect than possibly killing or hurting one or more drivers anytime someone brakes too late, loses control or pulls a Roy Nissany.....

@stefanmarraccini8646 Год назад

They exist so as RAD high resolution imagery can exist and co-mingle with bold graphic design and create noble clickbait. Nobility is rare in Clickbaitesville, y'know...

@SpeedyHoon Год назад

There's a lot of history you're missing and completely wrong about why they are red and white. Marlboro had nothing to do with it. Originally white and black striped but they were changed because it's easier to see red and white from a distance at speed. Also completely missing the point of costly track maintenance (which is much cheaper today), often pot holes would form off track during a race when the surrounding surface is grass or gravel. If a high powered car drives over the pot hole it'll loos traction on that wheel and can cause the car to spear of the track causing an accident. For a short period the car is effectively one wheel drive. Their accident trajectory is largely influenced if they have a limited slip or open centre differential.

@markhowells13 Год назад

TLDR .... "why are there kerbs".... answer "drivers being drivers" Thats about it. if you dont put proper consequences in...drivers will cheat at their own detriment

@devinaschenbrenner2683 Год назад

I feel like the potential of horrible things happening out weight the reasoning for Saugus curbs to exist. Cars becoming airborne off of curbs just shouldn't be a thing anymore. We have the technology to figure something else out that won't turn an F1 car, or any race car these days for that matter, into a flying huck of metal at excess speeds.

@pannonianfit1582 Год назад

also they guide less experienced drivers to ideal racing line and serve as a visual guideline for ideal braking point

@X1erra Год назад

Launch sausage kerbs into the sky so we don't get our cars flying like that again :)

@mistyhoudiny5729 Год назад

Hearing an F1 car exiting a corner riding over the kerb of the wall of champion in montreal is just insane. I would've never fought that the some of the kerb would be that exciting. I'm not joking

@johnny5805 Год назад

"Sidewalk" ? "Sidewalk" ? Er, Nigel, why are you using septic tank terminology ? Septics are hardly your target demographic !

@nealeware9163 Год назад

? ? ? What is wrong with the FIA? If sausage Kerbs are so dangerous then get rid of the stupid death traps. If every corner had Kerbs that the drivers could use to their advantage then it would make for so much more exciting racing with fast cornering.

@michaeljoefox 11 месяцев назад

Just replace the curbs with a light* curtain that detects if a driver crosses it. If you cross it, you lose 5 seconds lap time and get have to dinner with Raikokken but you just called off his pit stop a few seconds late.

@martyschrader Год назад

The course has lines to demarcate the edge of the track surface. Just like in the coloring book, you are supposed to keep the car between those lines. I would like to see every road course on the planet use klang dots of a teardrop shape, where the low, pointy end is closest to the edge of the track and the height and width rise linearly away from that edge. If the car runs over the small end of the klang dot you get a small effect. If the car runs over the klang dots deeper into their rise then the car suffers greater consequences. If racing bodies are worried about cars getting launched into the air then they need to invest in Kevlar netting to catch airborn cars. Perhaps a flying car or two will convince cheating drivers that they should stay on the track surface after all.

@JohnnyEMatos Год назад

I really hate when 90% of the tracks in any calendar are red and white, with red being the offender. Visually, it's like seeing a copy of the same track numerous times.

@Drbudweiser Год назад

I’d like to see smaller bigger curbs and more grass before any runoff to punish people who can’t stay in the lines. It also fixes the poor FIA rule keeping

@dominicowens8307 Год назад

All kerbs have a purpose. They just need to be respected. On certain tracks a sausage kerb on the exit of certain corners have proven to stop cars from over running the track but also giving them an advantage as they can really keep a massive amount of rubber, so rubber on rubber just gives more grip

@N1gel Год назад

Was I paying attention? I had to laugh. "Saussages are made to launch curbs into the sky." Great comment but I think its a banger of a sausage.

@zachemorgan Год назад

I hate those kerbs in imola lol worst track IMO mostly because of its kurbs. spa best track why well its spa but also the kerbs work they don't kill you or give you a diffrent feel every lap.

@youngyingyang Год назад

I fail to understand why there is no consistency in the build of curbs, colors, height, etc...) and even no consistency in penalties (all tyres, half of the tyres outside the curb, etc...)

@baccarah7010 Год назад

I say get rid of sausage curbs at least for formula racing because all they do is break drivers backs. Of course you can just not take them but there were cases where they couldnt be avoided because of track position and crashes.

@kencarlile1212 Год назад

All in for gravel instead of the sanitized paint over concrete garbage in most F1 tracks these days. Let the drivers (and teams!) pay for indiscretions.

@иванкашпуров Год назад

thanks for the video

@BTrain-is8ch Год назад

Car people forget that most world class tracks are used for cars AND motorcycles. Motorcycle safety features like big paved runoff areas get abused by car drivers.

@Robert-cu9bm Год назад

You could say that sausage kerb saved the lives of the media people, as it launched the car over them rather than a direct hit.

@Olivyay Год назад

No, the car would have gone into the tyre wall if there had been no sausage curb.

@reptongeek Год назад

I have to agree with using grass and/or gravel to mark the edge of the race track behind a kerb. Since we started using tarmac and extending kerbs we have had track limits issues every single race, and I'm fed up with it to be honest. If we returned to grass and gravel and mandated a kerb could only be half a F1 car in width we could get rid of all of these at a stroke It would also make circuits look nicer to look at. When I started watching F1 in the mid nineties, they all looked really nice. With the increasing amount of tarmac and coloured bits everywhere this is no longer the case. Paul Ricard for instance with it's 3 squillion layouts and coloured stripes looks bloody awful. It's the ugliest race track in the world bar none

@ATEC101 Год назад

Unfortunately, you did not think this through. Drivers will purposely bring dirt and gravel back onto the circuit to screw everyone else, especially during qualifying. It used to be a standard tactic, especially on corner exit since you are fully committed at that time. Drivers are a$$holes, especially highly paid ones that don't have to fix the cars. I am an owner, mechanic and driver of a POS club racing car. The owner and mechanic always call the driver an a$$hole.

@reptongeek Год назад

@@ATEC101 I have thought this through. After every F1 race there is always some track limits controversy and on forum pages various methods like induction loops and sensors and other electronic methods are discussed to stop drivers crossing the line. Now multiply that over the whole year. Grass and gravel provide a natural boundary and a deterrent from going too far, in other words retirement from a session or the race

@tturi2 Год назад

just make the hard rule of if the inside wheels pass the white line, pitstop or 2 seconds added to that lap with astro turf

@reptongeek Год назад

@@tturi2 Your reply just proves my point. In my opinion the best and only way to enforce track limits is grass and gravel. But instead we come up with a myriad of solutions to avoid using them.

@leoschenk2118 Год назад

They claim that the kerbs in spa are colorized based on two of the colors in the Belgian flag? They do not make that apparent at all. Italy it's at least noticeable and using all the colors

@BOBimusRex Год назад

IMO every track should have 3 foot tall concrete walls all the way around. Flirt with track limits at your own risk. Stay on the track, or eat wall.

@mrthiefy Год назад

so then just get rid of curbs and have an actual curb that you can't drive over and then you will be on the racing line as that is the only way you have to go. then you can't take half of your car over the edge of the racing line. which to me is just cheating the corner.

@Corvilux52 Год назад

I don't like the gravel argument because depending on the car, gravel can cause a car to launch as well. Not as spectacularly, but still.