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FIA clarifies jump start rules for 2018
Drivers who don't line up their car correctly on a starting grid in 2018 will run the risk of incurring a penalty for a false start. Sebastian Vettel's offset position on this year's China Grand Prix starting grid has prompted the FIA to tighten the rules governing a jump start in F1. Vettel purposefully placed his car to the left of his painted grid box in Shanghai to avoid a patch of wet track, with his launch subsequently going undetected by the FIA's system. The incident went unpunished but a clarification of the rules will prevent drivers in the future from resorting to such a tactic. Current regulations rely only on transponder data to define whether a start was jumped or not by a...
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