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Originally Posted by Noah930
What would a fair penalty have been?
If you were steward for the day and had to rule within the rules: no penalty/racing incident? 5 second? 10 second? Stop and go? DQ?
What if you were king for a day and could make up any penalty under the sun? Suspension as suggested by Helmut Marko?
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The penalty needs to accomplish something. Simply to penalize and it literally has no impact is pointless. There was no way Hammy could make that 'corner' on his line. He would have been way out of track limits on exit.
Maybe drive thru? Possibly move him to rear of grid on the restart. Seems to me he got a huge benefit by knocking out his main rival and then gets what amounted to a slap on the wrist. So much so that he was still in a position to win the race.
It was killing Martin Brundle and Damon Hill to say it was Hammy's fault. Hill finally did but he was trying very hard to not say it. Brundle and Karun just couldn't bring themselves to it.
In a way it reminds me of Canada with Seb. It is no wonder so many people believe Hammy gets preferential treatment.
Also, don't know if the stewards actually entertained comment from Toto but that should be strictly out of bounds and the race director shouldn't be telling the team bosses to go speak to stewards. If they want your input they will ask.