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Originally Posted by RichardInCA
I’m not sure it’s that weird….when one thinks about the stuff outside of the rule books. Seems like the stewards didn’t want to hand Lando the podium position last week as the result of a questionable pass so they wrapped his knuckles with 5 seconds, kinda thought well Max wasn’t an angel but if we don’t give Lando a 10 sec penalty for track limits then it sorta means we can sleep at night and we’ll write something both-sides-y in the post race memo.
Fast forward to Mexico City, it’s lap 1 - plenty of time for the race to play out and iron out the impacts of a stewards decision early in the race (theoretically) BUT if they rinse/repeated the COTA decision then everyone will be up in arms about the “FIA always favors Max”. My guess is that they wanted to send a louder message than they did in the stewards post-race note from COTA. Either way, the two consecutive corner stuff from Max was kinda blatant - making it very easy for the stewards to come down hard this time. It’s never really been about consistency and precedent setting with FIA, or at least that’s how it appears to me.
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Running people off seems SOP from Max. It's almost as if he's telling drivers that you risk a crash or running off if you attempt to pass.