F1 Formula 1 - 2026 Season

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Happy for Lewis. He's quietly put together a really solid run of form lately.

 

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The strange reason so many cars broke Monaco pit speed limit

Cadillac is positioned at the end of the pitlane, which is slightly more open this year than when it was funnelled more tightly by barriers on both sides.

This seems to have invited drivers to cut the white line that denotes the fast lane - which is done at both ends of the pits here.

It is allowed from a regulatory perspective, but can create an unusual problem: the speed of a car in the pitlane in F1 is measured using electronic timing loops and the FIA transponders, rather than through a camera or a gun.

The car will pass over multiple loops in the pitlane and then the system calculates its speed based on the time taken to travel that distance.

As the fast lane is used to calculate the pitlane distance, even a marginally too aggressive cut of the line would shorten it.

So a car travelling at exactly 60km/h would complete the distance slightly too quickly for how it should be measured, and be very fractionally over the speed limit - hence the tiny margins seen in practice.

 

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