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Originally Posted by Teretonga
Lando got pinged for not allowing room for Perez in Austria and again in Zandvoort he did something similar. So there is often a consequence. Its not being ignored.
Sometimes enthusiasts feel that it is being ignored or not enough is being done but you have to remember that this is a sport. A competition.
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It's not being ignored, but is not policed enough in frequency are severity of penalty for it to be enough of a deterrent to change behaviour.
Yes, Norris gets a minimal penalty while the other guys race is over. In Zandvoort he does the same again so it does not seem he has learned much from the penalty.
Verstappen-Leclerc Austria
Verstappen-Hamilton Barcelona
Verstappen-Hamilton Monza lap 1 T4
Hamilton-Verstappen crash
So let's say for arguments sake Hamilton would have left Verstappen enough room from T1 tot T2. He would've have had to take a tighter arc (like lap 1) and so would've lost some ground because of that. Instead of Verstappen being slightly behind into T2 he probably would've been about equal or slightly ahead.
But now comes T2. Now Verstappen needs to take a much tighter arch to leave Hamilton enough room on the exit of T2. Two things could then have happened:
1 He fails to do so, in my book that is a penalty for Verstappen
2 Or he does leave Hamilton enough room on the outside, Hamilton can take more speed onto curva granda and we could've seen the fight continue into the second chicane.
Glorious stuff potentially. unfortunately like so many times lately many drivers are not willing to go through a corner side by side and it's over within one corner. The current rules unfortunately don't help to change that.