All the different penalties

[airshifter]

This is one area of the sport that they should be putting lots of efforts improving rather than altering pitstop procedures l think.

Agreed. Consistency in decisions would be huge for the sport, and give the drivers a chance to push right up to the legal limits on any given day. The way it is now, the line of that limit seems to move.

As for the Bottas thing, I wonder if the grid penalty was due to the fact that they had recently released the new pit stop rules as a safety thing, and felt obligated to take grid spots? I thought it was stupid myself as it was obviously not intentional, and overall kind of a freak thing.

[Nitrodaze]

Agreed. Consistency in decisions would be huge for the sport, and give the drivers a chance to push right up to the legal limits on any given day. The way it is now, the line of that limit seems to move.

As for the Bottas thing, I wonder if the grid penalty was due to the fact that they had recently released the new pit stop rules as a safety thing, and felt obligated to take grid spots? I thought it was stupid myself as it was obviously not intentional, and overall kind of a freak thing.

Consistency is the keyword here. If you take the penalties for Norris and Perez at the second race at Austria for instance, you have to wonder where the consistency is. Verstappen has been doing that for as long as he has been raced in f1 without penalties. That sort of move became known as the "Masi Elbow move". Originating from Michael Masi's 2018/19 philosophy of letting drivers run their overtaking competitors off the track in defence of their position through a corner. It has become a thing that is allowed when defending at corners.

Hence, fail to see why Norris or Perez was punished for doing just that. In Perez case, twice. With one of them occurring as a result of catching a momentary instability of the car during the duel for positions. The message seems to be changing. It would seem the "Masi Elbow" is now being withdrawn. Even so, can they do it consistently, l wonder.