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11th June 2019, 01:04 #11
I think that's what we need: the stewards need to have a sanction that will be immediately effected on-track (like giving up a position). The problem with time penalties is that if they're late in the race, the final order isn't going to be the order in which everybody passes the line, which I think is the root of all of the upset here.
To work, this would need to be something that the stewards decide on very quickly (like within one lap of the incident or something) and need to be effected by the driver within some short period, like a lap or two, or be converted automatically into a greater time penalty. You'd also need a requirement that DRS be disabled for the penalized driver for a lap or so, otherwise they'd just game the system by timing the switch to right before the detection zone.
Fair play to Lewis here, though; he could have just backed off and held the gap to less than 5 seconds, but he instead pushed aggressively to try to reel Vettel in and tried to win it on track.
They say it was because they had the tyre off the rim, but even they are not sure exactly what happened... They are more or less feeling OK, but pretty sore (the hit was over 17G).
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