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Outcome based penalties are a fact of life, and to exclude that from Sport would result in an "unreal" experience for all.
there has to be a degree of flexibility within the penalty applied to a particular offence.
Lets take a random race incident, rather naming drivers, teams or previous actual events.
Unsafe pit release causing another driver to take avoiding action.
Unsafe pit release loose wheel that remains connected ... driver stops before leaving pitlane.
Unsafe release loose wheel that remains connected, but driver perhaps unaware at that point leaves the pitlane.
Unsafe pit release loose wheel come off endangering safety of others.
Unsafe pit release pulling equipment out into the pitlane.
The offence is Unsafe release, but the outcome has to be taken into consideration, because no one penalty would be appropriate for all these scenarios.
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