On the insistence of the FIA, Albert Park will now not characteristic its iconic inexperienced and yellow kerb markings.
Sadly, when the season will get underway subsequent month, like so many different tracks, the kerbs will probably be painted white.
“We’re a little bit of a novel there,” Tom Mottram, chief occasions officer for the Australian GP, tells Speedcafe, although the kerbs at Interlagos are additionally inexperienced and yellow at current.
Explaining why the inexperienced and yellow happened, he explains: “I had to return to the archives a bit to know why, and it is to do with the very fact we’re in a public park.
“It was this sort of humorous ‘no standing’… there’s some yellow traces painted all year long which isn’t any parking when it is within the fingers of Parks Victoria. There was an settlement struck years and years in the past the place we might simply preserve it yellow so we weren’t repainting each time. However now, with the adjustments to trace limits, there’s new specs round it must be white with a blue define.”
As beforehand reported, the notorious Flip 6, the place each George Russell and Alex Albon crashed final yr, has been modified, with the TecPro obstacles realigned with a view to stop vehicles bouncing again on to the observe ought to they hit the obstacles.
