• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    not more severe, he just gained an advantage from it whereas Alonso and Sainz both fell to the back. I’m guessing if he gave the place back none of this would have happened.

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        They aren’t not applied by severity of outcome in the sense that you don’t get a harsher penalty if you take out the race leader vs a backmarker, but it does absolutely make a difference if you gained an advantage from the situation.