Whilst I'm relaxed about their not being a penalty for Max in this situation - as Lewis got ahead anyway later on, I again dislike the precedence that seems to keep being set.
If that had been a tight hairpin, and Max had made no effort to make the corner having braked too late and forced Lewis off the track. Would that be fine? What about if there was a wall there? Let's say they touched and Lewis went into the wall - would Mercedes have been in the right to throw a massively wobbly like RedBull did at Lewis' Silverstone overtake?
Then take the example that Malt Vinegar linked (from Austria iirc?). Lewis was ahead and only overtaken once already turning into the corner - and then only because the Redbull had braked significantly later and missed the apex by a country mile.
It seems every bit of close racing that ends up with contact, or cars being off the track is dealt with in a completely different way. There doesn't appear to be a consistent behaviour from the Stewards - not that this comes as a surprise when they can't even manage a consistent ruling around track limits... Get's even more frustrating when you hear the commentators one minute criticise a driver for not leaving any room, and then the next minute mention how the driver on the inside is allowed to loosen his line to run the other driver wide
I fully expect Lewis to be very nervous coming up against Max for the rest of the season. He can't afford a collision, whilst Max has shown on more than one occasion he's quite happy for both cars to be taken out whilst he's ahead in the points. I hope we don't end up with a championship decider that get's remembered for all the wrong reasons.
