10 seconds? You mean the same penalty that Tsunoda got for speeding in pit lane or some shit?
Yeah, "it's a yoke", as they say. Though speeding in the pitlane is not as minor an infringement as you make it out to be. After all, there's people running back and forth in the pitlane or standing ready waiting for their driver to come in. A collision could be fatal, even at the allowed 80kph.
Didn't Tsunoda get the penalty for crossing the white line on pit entry though?
In case of the Silverstone crash, a 10 second penalty would be rather lackluster without costcap in such a situation but with a costcap, taking a 10 second penalty is outright a freebie, when your opponent gets his power unit destroyed, leading to an inevitable full grid start penalty down the line.
In this race, had Max been able to continue his race, he'd have gotten a 5 or 10 second penalty himself, but it was transformed to a 3 place grid penalty intsead. That is the most mild grid penalty available to FIA... so on that front, the penalties are somewhat fair in their height when you disregard Max' loss of a power unit in Silverstone and the fact that at worst, this was merely a racing incident if not outright Hamilton's fault for slamming the door shut on Max twice despite being in a signifcantly weaker position.
FIA says, Max could have used the emergency exit, but as I see it, that would mean he yields in a fight for a position where he is clearly in a stronger postion. I think FIA isn't as biased towards Mercedes as some others suggest, but this decision is just something that I can't understand and makes me stray closer to the "FIA is M
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