Well, the track limits are there for a reason. If Ekstrom was given a penalty for cheating by taking shortcuts on track he would have been either behind Bakkerud = No final for Ekstrom or at least behind Petter which would place Petter on row two in the final and Ekstrom in row three. If he had braked lie the rest and driven within track limits he would have been third for sure, and possibly passed by Bakkerud in the final corner. He was in a bad place when he decided to just ignore the last corner.

The judges failure to strike down on this cheating could have decided the battle between 2/3 and 5/6 (Bakkerud) in the championship. It should have been decided on track, within the track limits.