Position drop could address F1’s off-track overtaking issue

The GPDA director said that one possible solution is to give those who transgress a penalty that involves positions rather than time.

Russell has been guilty on several occasions of making a move that involves going off the circuit but which gains a crucial track position, and opens up the possibility of negating the five-second penalty that is the standard outcome.

In last weekend’s US Grand Prix sprint race at the Circuit of the Americas,…