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[-] mhague@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't understand the stewards on this one. The attacker has to prepare for a pass this late in the race. It's a fighter in round 5 creating an opportunity to win. You can't cheap shot the attacker and then go "guess you'll have to try again." It makes no sense.

They even tell teams to handle off track incidents themselves before they get involved. Well the defender went off the track because they lost control (aka purposely came off the brake) and couldn't make the corner. The defender destroyed all that preparation by leaving the track, thereby gaining a multiple lap advantage! Clearly the attacking car should keep the place. But now it's up to the stewards to decide apparently.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Two wrongs don't make a right. Both Verstappen and Norris were in the wrong and of the two Norris was clearly the one gaining a bigger advantage from his wrong, gaining a position VS maintaining a position.

  • If you penalize neither driver then Norris gains an advantage.
  • If you penalize just Verstappen Norris gains an even bigger advantage.
  • If you penalize Norris he gets a disadvantage with his advantage.
  • If you penalize both then it's as if nobody got penalized.
  • If you penalize both but Norris more severely you get the same outcome as if you've penalized only Norris.

You might not like it but Norris deserved that penalty, what he did was against the rules. What Norris should've done is give the position back and try to get a penalty for Max for pushing Norris off the track.

Edit: seems like a lot of people are letting their objectivity be clouded by their dislike of Max. Ask yourself, if the roles were reversed, would you be making the same arguments? Would you also argue that Max overtaking offytrack shouldn't be penalized or that Lando pushing Max off track should be penalized? To me the drivers don't matter, whoever took a position off track should be penalized first. If they had given the position back the driver pushing off track should be penalized. Penalizing both equally means nobody got penalized and one driver got away with an unfair overtake.

[-] flabbergast@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I agree with your assessment.
My solution in this case would be: 5 second penalty to NOR, like they issued and 10 second penalty to VER for driving unfairly and with ill intent for the millionth time.

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