FIA adjusts rules on track limits a day too late for Verstappen

For a brief moment, Max Verstappen thought he had pole position in his hands when the clock hit 0 in Friday's qualifying session for the US Grand Prix. However, the Red Bull Racing driver was deceived as he saw his time scrapped for exceeding the track limits. Interestingly, a day later, the FIA adjusted the track limits, including where Verstappen briefly left the track and was thus penalised.

An FIA spokesman revealed, "following a discussion with the teams and drivers yesterday, we have widened the white line on the outside at Turns 9, 12 and 19 - this is to give the drivers a bit of extra margin at these corners." Drivers could not see how much space they had left, due to a lack of visibility from the cockpit.

At Sky Sports, Christian Horner said of the change: "It was discussed between the drivers and the team managers in their meeting last night and the white line has now become more of a stripe than a line," the Red Bull team boss told the British television channel.