I've been thinking about this since the same comments were posted about the earlier release.
My thought is that many race car engines require relatively high engine revs (above 10x100 = 1000rpm), in comparison to our standard road cars that tick over sweetly at about 750rpm. If the racing car driver didn't keep the revs over the 1000rpm indicated by the red zone then it would stall. The highest rev range would be shown by a red needle/hand that would be set pre-start up at the upper permitted engine rpm and this was moved by the rpm hand thus showing if the driver took it over the "danger" rpm.
This is used on the single seater cars that you can drive on a day's racing school at Brands Hatch and other courses.
So the watch dial's red area is not from 60-10, it's from 0-10 thus simulating, as best as possible, the racing car dial's anti-stall low rev range.