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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I actually kind of agree with a penalty, but think the penalty was more of a "leaving the track and gaining an advantage" which often comes with a "give the position back" penalty. Had they done that, Vettel would have had a chance to come back. They used to give this penalty much more often than I've seen it in the past 3 years. I think that would have been more appropriate.
The fact is, Vettel screwed up, and Hamilton had to take avoiding action costing him the place to Vettel.
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I’ll be honest, I’m a little surprised how pretty much everyone thought it was an awful penalty. I saw a tweet from Mario Andretti saying it was terrible.
Do they still have 3 second time penalties? That would have seemed appropriate and would’ve kept it close. I know the penalty should match the incident and not be for the sake of entertainment but come on, what happened to letting them race?