I don't know about everyone else, but after watching the race yesterday on tape, since I was out while the race happened, but WTF is the FIA trying to do? Penalizing Verstappan for causing a collision? He was clearly along side Hamilton and Hamilton did his classic I am ahead so you have to get out of my way. Really? We all know that from years of SCCA road racing that it is the responsibility of the overtaking driver to complete a safe pass.
To me that means you have to give the other driver room to STAY on the track! Wheel to wheel racing can be very satisfying but it greatly relies on mutual trust between the drivers. Once the front of the overtaking drivers car is mid way along the side of the car they are passing then the other car has no right to run the passing car off the road.
This BS that is making it's way into pro racing is going to turn it into a crash fest and he said she said BS! Then this now adopted rule of allowing lapped cars to unlap them selves in a full course yellow is Nastycar BS. The whole thing stinks of circle track rules to make racing more interesting.
At the local indoor go cart track that I have patronized since the day they opened (Autobahn in HBG PA), I have done a few league races and they instituted a BS rule that if the over taking cart gets its front tire along side the others rear tire it is his turn and if a spin results the over taking driver is moved ahead of the car it dive bombed in the restart.
I told them that is total BS since the carts do not have mirrors and I have no way of knowing the other cart is there. If this is what road racing is headed towards then I guess I am old and willing to stop and spend my time and money else where.
OK, I will get off my soapbox now.
Ed