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Originally Posted by Southwell
Where was he to go? If he breaked he would of probably lost his wing.
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Hm, admitting Iīm somewhat of a ferrari fanboy (although not that much anymore since schumacher left) I think the penalty is ok. Itīs too hard no question, but imho hamilton did indeed gain an advantage. Raikonnen was in the lead and so in the right to defend his line and position. The one behind him has to care for himself an make sure not to crash the leading car. So Hamilton should have breaked and not crash into kimi. Which is whar he did. But imagine there was a wall and he couldnīt cut the schicane. He would have lost a lot of time because his overtaking attempt failed. Well in this case there was the possibility to cut and he did gain time and not loose time. And only because of this he was in the position to overtake,
So I think 10 seconds or so would have been a good penalty. Putting him on 3rd place is like disqualifying him and ruining a teriffic race.