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Norris: Track limit rule 'silly when gravel is 1cm away'

Lando Norris was caught out by F1's white line track limit rule in qualifying in Barcelona on Saturday which deprived the McLaren driver of a spot in Q3. Norris thought he had done enough to join teammate Daniel Ricciardo for the final Q3 shootout, but the Briton was told by his race engineer that his final lap in Q2 had been deleted for fractionally exceeding track limits at the sweeping Turn 12 leaving him 11th. But given the presence of a gravel trap just beyond the corner's rumble strip and white line, Norris felt that the track limit rule, as applied to a corner bordered by gravel, was "silly". "I thought I did the same as every other lap," he said after quali....
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