Track Limits

[KevSeymour]

The FIA said:

20.2 Drivers must use the track at all times. For the avoidance of doubt the white lines defining the track edges are considered to be part of the track but the kerbs are not.
A driver will be judged to have left the track if no part of the car remains in contact with the track.
Should a car leave the track the driver may rejoin, however, this may only be done when it is safe to do so and without gaining any advantage.
A driver may not deliberately leave the track without justifiable reason.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/110909

Why are the FIA not enforcing their own rules?

The Buddh circuit as been designed specifically for F1, and homologated as such. So why are they allowing the exits of corners to be abused here but not other circuits?

I don't believe for a second that there's no gain to be made from it, if there wasn't the drivers wouldn't be doing it!

[KevSeymour]

Them all doing it doesn't make it any less against the rules though.

The minimal extra distance is (probably) more than compensated for by the higher speeds they're able to carry through the corner and the more often they go off track in a certain place, the cleaner it'll get - so i'm not buying it.

Gary Paffett has recently posted about this on Twitter:
What a load of rubbish. You always gain by running wide!!
If you got a penalty for going off track you wouldn't drive so close to the limit and therefore go slower. End of story

If everyone decided to straight line the Nouvelle Chicane @ Monoco, would Charlie let that slide too?