Originally Posted by footygirl:
“Pathetic- a slap on the wrist. I think the stewards have bottled it”
Not really.
I'm an F1 fan who has been watching the sport since my age was in single digits to watch the likes of James Hunt, Niki Lauda, Jody Scheckter, Alan Jones & Nico Rosberg's dad.
There have been a number of occasions when Lewis Hamilton has driven like Ayrton Senna .... at his red mist worst, but despite the views of a certain Ferrari Fanatic embarrassing himself in this thread, that was certainly not the case today where he was very much the innocent party.
Maldonaldo's clear offence merited a drive through penalty, nothing more & nothing less. If he had taken a drive through penalty then he would have lost circa 20 seconds of time. As there was not time to enact that punishment during the race, then the equivalent punishment was added to the end of his race time.
His offence was certainly not as bad as Vergne's reckless driving earlier in the race which resulted in the safety car coming out for a lengthy period who deservedly got a 10 place grid penalty & a 25K fine in time for Silverstone.