Quote Originally Posted by MentalParadox View Post
The Ostberg penalty was 100% the Italian stewards running defense for "their" team, Pirelli. They were already under fire for their crap tires in the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, and now THIS happens. When the event is run by your compatriots, this can be exploited to silence your critics.
The Azerbaijan F1 started some 5 hours after Østberg said it. (He said it on first pass of PS)

Decision on penalty was annouced about half - way trough the F1 race (before the punctures happened)