One thing that i still do not understand is why no one seems to be bothered by the sudden change of the penalty system, F1 media/pundits ignored it completely, the teams did not seem to care, no one has talked about it here (well i mentioned it but ...)
From the in race penalty documents (59, 66) we know that 4 offences resulted in a +5s time penalty, another three for a total of 7 resulted in another time penalty of +10s.
During the race following drivers had +5s time penalties (Tsunoda already mentioned above):
Hamilton (Document 58)
Sainz (Doc 61)
Albon (Doc 62)
Gasly (Doc 63)
Sargeant (Doc 67)
Magnussen (Doc 68)
Then, after the race, when AM protested and they realised that the deleted laptime chart did not add up with the number of penalties given they suddenly switched to a completely different system:
So in short, the penalties corresponding to the total number of offences:
Those are the additional penalties given post race.
From the deleted lap time chart, all drivers sorted by total offences, what the penalties would be with the system employed during the race and with the changed system (adding up the in and post race penalties):
* Albon only received ONE additional penalty despite having the same number of offences as Tsunoda (!)
** imho Perez was maybe off in T9 L57
*** Norris was visibly off track on the TV feed at least one more time (L40 T3), maybe even two more times (L41 T10), Hamilton reported several more instances that i could neither verify nor disprove.
With regards to the first one by Norris - does anyone know whether going in too hot (= making a mistake) is a "justifiable reason" or if that phrasing is reserved to being pushed off etc?
I obviously did not take those potentially missed off tracks into account for the changed race result.
FIVE drivers received higher penalties than they would have during the race, why two drivers with the same number of offences have different penalties is also baffling.
This post race change of how they applied penalties had an impact on the race result, the points and therefore potentially the WDC/WCC standings:
Sainz/Ferrari lost 4 points, Alonso/AM gained 2 points, Russell and Hamilton lost/gained 2 points respectively.
Provisional Race Result Doc
Final Race Result Doc
If i made some massive error here or misinterpreted the documents feel free to correct me.
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Another aspect is that many of the drivers would not have even received their first +5s penalties had race control done their job properly.
The twitter thread by 'The_F1Whisperer' already outlined how badly Ocon was disadvantaged.
A quick look at LH's radio communication and his offences:
Hamilton went off track on laps
3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
the first one was not caught initially, he had 5 noted during the race
He gets informed about having two warnings after L9, before L13, i could not place the radio call exactly, by that time the penalty is inevitable.
On L12 the TV overlay shows Lewis' laptime of 1:10.746 being deleted - that was L5 for leaving the track on L4 T10
L13 he gets the black and white flag.
He receives the penalty on L17.
He did not leave the track a single time after his 2nd warning, had that warning come on time it's almost certain he would not have exceeded track limits after L5 at the latest.
The same is true for Sainz:
He received his black and white flag 30 minutes into the race, his last offence was 5 minutes prior to that, by the time he was shown that flag he had 5 counted, 1 was missed on L3. He did not leave the track after the team informed him about the warnings.
Neither of those two would have received another penalty had all their offences been noted during the race, but because both of them were off at the SC restart one of those offences was missed which apparently is enough to retroactively give them an extra +10s because the system was changed for no apparent reason.
edits were the addition of more links and some rephrasing