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Originally Posted by dammage79
Bah. Could have made him relinquish a position. Which would've been more apt for a punishment. I'm not a Hamilton fan by any stretch but that was silly, 10 seconds? Day ruined.
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Problem is Bearman overtook Max on that same move. I do wonder if Hamilton would have gotten away with it if he 'gave back the advantage' by dropping back to just in front of Bearman without giving up the position. At worst it probably would have made it just a 5 second penalty, but it's also possible that it would have meant Max got the penalty instead.
Max probably deserved a penalty for banging wheels with Lewis, forcing him off, and then cutting the corner to hold the overtake - though Lewis kinda forced him back off (which was fine)...but Max could argue that he didn't necessarily 'gain an advantage' by cutting the corner since Lewis ended up right behind him and it was the very next corner that Lewis did his even bigger cut. I think the other problem is that Lewis probably could have made the corner even with the lock up, but chose not to.
Sooo much going on there. Breaking it down like that I think maybe there's no action at all if Lewis slows up a bit. It seemed like he was way off down the road, but he was only really 0.8s in front of Bearman when timing sorted itself out (and I wonder if Lewis actually did slow up a bit), but then a a few seconds later it was full 2s gap once Bearman/Max's squabble resolved (so in the end I don't think it's wrong to say that Lewis gained a significant lasting advantage out of the whole deal)