Spacepace wrote: ↑09 Jun 2019, 22:35
Isn't the rule if your fighting for position and you go off track you have to give up your position considering you lost it on the basis that you wouldn't have kept it if you didn't cut the corner?!
Regardless sucks for the championship and the fans would've been nice seeing Ferrari win today
No it isn't.
There are two rules that some here got confused. First one, gaining an advantage, when you overtake someone by cutting a corner or something like that or if, by cutting a corner, you are suddenly miles ahead of the field and don't give that space back. A failed defence is normally never penalised (as for instance in the chicane after the tunnel in Monaco). This rule wasn't applied here.
Then you have, what was used here, unsafe rejoining of the track. Nothing to do with position. Vettel put his foot down and almost crashed into Hamilton when rejoining the track, with a bit of an extra squeeze at the end.