More F1 drivers will miss grid slots despite tweaks

Ocon was hit with a five-second time penalty in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix for lining up too far to the right of his grid box.

In the following race in Saudi Arabia, Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso similarly copped a penalty after he lined up to the left.

In the wake of those penalties, the FIA responded by widening the grid boxes by 20cm for the third grand prix in Melbourne. It also trialled a new guidance line in the first couple of grid…