As i wrote, even the official live feed was enough to question it - i was in a discord voice chat with a few people during the race and read live commentary in two more discord chats (incl. the F1Technical one) and everyone was just saying/writing "track limits" every now and then up to the point where it was a running gag and in the end the actual (additional) penalties did not fit what the subjective perception of most people was.
All teams also had the observations from their own drivers given to them over the radio.
I'm almost certain that Hamilton only received his penalty that early into the race because Norris was reporting every time he thought LH went off.
There's nothing suspicious about it.
Marble wrote: ↑03 Jul 2023, 15:45
So, during the race itself, race control only had 3 notifications against Ocon (laps 27, 38 and 58).
So during the cool down lap, his team radio with his engineer showed they thought they were safe and Ocon did "a good job managing it".
While in fact, after the protest, he actually had 10 infringements !
He only got to know about his 1st strike (which happened on lap 27) on lap 35 (8 laps after). During this time, he was stuck behind Albon who himself kept going outside the track, so Ocon probably thought he could do it as well, until his engineer notified him on lap 32 that Alton got a black and white flag (Albon himself was only told about his 1st, 2nd, and 3 infringement on lap 31, while his first 4 infringements happened on laps 19, 20 and 25 (x2))
It's entirely possible that Ocon would not have exceeded track limits after the final warning (b/w flag) had he received it for his actual 3rd off track - not informing the drivers on time and then dishing out penalties is kinda pathetic, there's no other word for it, really.
I also do not understand the system by which they handed out the post race penalties, how did 10 offences translate to +5 +10 +5 +10 seconds?
Which part of the regulations determines the penalties for leaving the track?
It's usually +5s for 4 offences, another 3 offences result in +10s ... would another 3 be +15s ?
Why did the usual system during the race suddenly change to
For four infringements, a 5 second time penalty; for five infringements, a 10 second time penalty. Then a “reset” has been allowed due to the excessive number of infringements. The counting of infringements restarts. After another four infringements, a 5 second time penalty will apply; after five, a 10 second time penalty.
If i understand correctly this means 4 offences is +5s and A SINGLE ADDITIONAL ONE already adds +10s, and then it resets because .... (?)
Another thing to note:
Hamilton, Sargeant and Sainz have 6 offences each (see deleted lap document), with the in-race enforcement they got a penalty for the first 4 and then went off 2 more times, 3 would have been needed for the +10s penalty.
However with the post-race review they all got the additional +10s for their 5th offences.
Nyck also just had 6, none of which were noted during the race, he got +5s and +10s which would have been just one +5s in-race.
Yuki is on 9 offences, he got +5s for his first 4, then the +10s for another 3, 9 would not have been sufficient for an additional penalty afaik - but with the reset he still got another +5s penalty.
Albon also has 9 offences, he got one +5s in race and then the +10s post race.
How does that make any sense?