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How a wonky pit box underlines F1's most ambitious comeback

Sauber turned heads with its unique approach to marking out its pit box at the British Grand Prix, but that is just the tip of the iceberg for a team that has gone through a huge transition in the last year

Jonathan Noble Jul 12, 2018, 11:48 AM

For anyone who gets slightly on edge when lines are not perfectly straight, the Sauber pit box at last weekend's British Grand Prix would have been a place to avoid.

Take a close look at a photo of the Sauber area and you can see that rather than the yellow wheel place-markers being perfectly parallel with the white lines of the pitlane, they are very obviously crooked.

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Author Jonathan Noble

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.