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@neilosjames excellent example! Drive-through penalty I believe. Personally I miss the days of drive throughs. They were harsh, but for me, the 5 seconds penalties encourage dirty driving, with drivers knowing […]

Will they be policed all weekend, or is the run off fair game if you’re fighting wheel to wheel for the world championship and need to use an extra 10 metres to keep the other guy behind?

@johnrkh is it not more rigged to give an advantage to the fastest cars and drivers by starting them at the front?

Surely that makes this a must win for Hamilton? Verstappen just needs one win from the last 3 and he should be fine. Of course, it may be that this would appear to be by far his best opportunity to win.

that’s fine, precedent set in Silverstone is that it’s a 10 second penalty…

@andrewf1 purely on a technicality of there not being an official investigation for them to review. Was mentioned on the article on this topic yesterday. Personally I think they should be able to review it.

For me this is all about whether there is a right to review, given there was no official investigation into the incident. If it’s deemed there is, it’s a slam dunk penalty for me, either a time penalty or grid […]

@kavu It’s quite simple, this is different because Verstappen didn’t stay on the track. Had Verstappen stayed on track then it would be fine, as his move in Spain, Imola, Austria vs Leclerc all were. This is very different.

Doesn’t really change anything. Was an obvious penalty before, is an obvious penalty now. If you brake too late to make the corner, and in doing so run your rival off track and fail to stay on it yourself, that’s […]

Maybe because he did. He finished 1 second behind a car with one of the most significant performance advantages we’ve seen all year. The sort of drive that when Max was doing it last year (but not coming as […]

@balue as baasbas says, the issue was that they had Sainz’s tyres ready. He was actually ahead of Sainz and Ricciardo when they got to the pitlane, and just 1 tenth back from Verstapen.

@grapmg you are correct, my mistake. He was within half a second, and then passed him as Verstappen entered the pits. Would almost certainly have got him down the main straight had he not pitted.

Nice to see some recognition of Leclerc’s performance. Had the rain not come, he would probably have beaten Verstappen having both started on the back row, despite Ferrari’s best efforts. He was left out 2 laps […]

if you look closer at the performance of the 2, Leclerc is massively outperforming Sainz. He’s been a bit unlucky in that he hasn’t had the chance to be there on the weekends when things have fallen Sainz’s way […]

To which I would say, fair play, he did the best job in the first Q3 runs, so has earned the right to take more risks on the 2nd runs.

I fundamentally disagree with this. Has he not earned the right to do exactly that? We have seen on Sunday that it has other potential consequences, so not something that will happen very often.

We can complain that a local person is put in charge!

Because they have earned the privilege to push over the limit…

Indeed, hard to see how Hamilton could win in Monaco if Verstappen’s on pole, which form would suggest he should be.

I suspect there might be a joker in the pack in Monaco though, in the shape of Leclerc. I […]

@gechichan If you lose control on a formation lap (pre race or post red flag) and lose positions, you have until the pit lane to regain position or you have to return to the pits.