From next race weekend in Australia, the grid positions will be wider. The FIA wants to respond to repeated complaints from the F1 drivers about the difficulty of seeing the grid positions from the car.
After the time penalty for Fernando Alonso in Saudi Arabia, but also a time penalty for Esteban Ocon in Bahrain, there was a lot to do around the bad positioning of several F1 drivers and whether or not to hand out penalties for that. The FIA now wants to solve the problem by widening the grid positions from next race weekend in Australia.
The grid positions will be widened by twenty centimeters from next weekend during the race in Melbourne. This should ensure that the drivers can better see from their car how to position themselves on the starting grid. In addition, it should also prevent punishments.