Charlie Whiting has stated that the stewards don't take the consequences of the collision into account when serving a penalty.
They SHOULD serve same penalty for causing a collision with Stroll vs one with Vettel or Hamilton or whether it ruins ruins someone's (or their own) race or not.
Sure doesn't look like that's what happens but that's how the stewards operate... apparently.
Mandrake wrote:LM10 wrote: ↑08 Jul 2018, 15:35
Mandrake wrote: ↑08 Jul 2018, 15:27
Vettel really damaged Bottas car, here it was just a spin. It was even less than France in this case...
You can also look at it this way: In France Vettel damaged Bottas' car, but also his own car and needed to change the front wing. Here, Kimi didn't damage his car (at least it looked like that, he says he has understeer though), neither the one of Hamilton, but Hamilton lost several places, Kimi just two.
Absolutely true. However, we never get any kind of detail on the reasoning for a decision (same with Vettel penalty in Austria vs no penalty for anyone in Canada) hence the inconsistency is damaging...
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