Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
Martin Brundle explained why it was not faster. The Mercedes still has instability,so they need that run-off area to maintain speed through that corner. The Redbull didn't!
So the car that doesn't handle as well can exceed the limits the better handling cars must use?

As the rule was set, they allowed that a car might occasionally go deep and exceed limits. But then they allowed some cars to do it for the entire race essentially, until the other cars started using the same advantage. I have no issue with the fact that they made Max give the position back. After all, a pass is a lasting advantage. However if a car is intentionally going beyond limits, it's to gain time, which is also a lasting advantage. The last I checked races are won by completing them in less time.

They need to either always enforce it, preferably with a pre-determined limit to the number of times to account for driver error, or don't enforce it at all, and let the drivers decide what the track limits are.