Originally Posted by
Bagwan
It is always going to be a risk to run around the outside of someone , and they both ran beside each other for a while without touching .
Even more risky , but within the rules as long as there is space for the other driver , is squeezing in around the outside in an effort to compromise the inside driver's line to force him to slow down knowing he can't make it around the tightened radius you've allowed .
You can argue that it was perhaps too much risk for Sergio to take , but given he was a nose ahead , it was his decision what line to take at that point .
Lewis could not hold that line , and slid outward into him because he was going too fast to make that radius .
It really is that simple . Lewis deserved the penalty .
I believe also , though , that Checo deserves a slap in the head from his team , for his action in the incident , as the very idea that he could get Hamilton to back out of it by squeezing him was never going to work and fraught with peril from the moment he thought it up .