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I was thinking along the same lines but in that scenario would Hamilton not be gaining an unfair advantage? Not sure how that differs from Max's overtaking move.
It makes sense to let drivers push the limits of the track to encourage racing/overtaking but this appears to be the one thing that they don't want drivers to do?!
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I was thinking along the same lines but in that scenario would Hamilton not be gaining an unfair advantage? Not sure how that differs from Max's overtaking move.
Yes - but people would still have complained that the stewards were ruining racing even though they enforced the rules "correctly".
The question is how to maintain the integrity of the race, without requiring stewards to interfere too often with what people see on the TV.
Scrabble
I think the issue they may have been concerned about was the possible ramifactions of enforcing track limits at that corner over a race distance.
Lets say Hamilton was on his last warning (black/white flag?), defending hard in the closing laps, worn tyres sliding all over the place, and by an inch, went outside the white line with all four wheels. The stewards would be forced to issue a penalty of some sort, handing the race to Max without a pass being completed. Everyone would have been up in arms about how the stewards are ruining racing!
That's not an excuse for this mess - they should have thought this through more and the track should be adjusted to prevent this - but just an explanation of how I think we may have got where we are.