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Opinion: The solution that can solve F1's sausage kerb dilemma

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Opinion: The solution that can solve F1's sausage kerb dilemma

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Jonathan Noble

Sep 12, 2019, 9:05 AM

Safety and track limits were unsurprisingly among the main topics of conversation in the F1 paddock at Monza after Alex Peroni's scary F3 crash. One alternative to the sausage kerbs used in Italy could drastically reduce the frequency of such discussions.

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Even watching replays now of Alex Peroni's FIA Formula 3 car flying through the air at Monza, it looks more like the kind of crash you see in a glitchy simracing game than something that can happen in real life.

But while the immediate discussion over Peroni's accident revolved around safety - and a hat must be tipped to the roles that the chassis, halo, barrier and fencing protections played in saving his life - the real issue at stake here does not have its roots in safety.

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Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.