[matthewb0051]

I had a house full yesterday during the last 20ish laps. Bunch of rubes that needed explanations of F1 and how things work. (The rubes are family, so what can you do?) I didn't get to hear a lot of the commentary and totally missed the post race. Although one family member wasn't amused by the kneeling that took place in Austin a few weeks ago. I believe his comments were something along the lines of not one American so what does this have to do with them.

At any rate, it seems F1 needs to tighten up the penalties when they do this short race thing. I understand the DQ for Hammy and how it applied to the sprint race but then why not apply to the actual race? And why does the engine penalty only apply to actual race. Its just a hodge podge of rules cobbled together that make no sense. It would seem that the DQ penalty should have been applied to the actual race. The way it was imposed really didn't make for a real penalty. If the penalty was for the 'race' then he would have had to make up 20 positions. In a way it was like Silverstone when the penalty wasn't a penalty.

I'm ok with the wide stuff that happened. It looked like Max missed the turn but then so did Lewis. Good no call there.