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Originally Posted by 77T

Great weekend capped by a live Stewards room controversy. The reality of the 5-sec penalty to Max was consistent with other cases of short cutting track limits to gain an advantage this year. Of course the excessive use of the run off areas makes it hard to accept - but in those cases drivers didn’t gain a passing advantage.

If someone had straightened out the Esses it would be obvious. This always fuels countless debates when a podium position is at stake.

I think one F1 fan website laid it out best:
“Verstappen cut a corner, shortened the track and by doing so overtook another car. Surely this should be a black-and-white penalty?

Sergio Perez was given a five-second time penalty and one point on his licence for overtaking Romain Grosjean at Spa with all four wheels off the track. Jolyon Palmer was given a five-second time penalty and one point on his licence for doing the same to Fernando Alonso at Monza. This decision is consistent with these previous ones.”

Bottas ran wide at turn one (all four wheels off) fending off Ricciardo on lap two and he didn’t incur a penalty.

This decision is not consistent with other incidents.