Hamilton got a 10 second penalty for causing a collision that put another car off the track and into a wall at 160mph.
Tsunoda got a 10 second penalty for crossing the white line in the pit lane during a previous race.
Motor racing safety is my background, more specifically F1 crash testing and composite materials. First off, the tyre wall did its job, as did the crash structures on the side of the car. Both performed as they should have done, and for that, we are all thankful. But what I will say is this:
A decade, two decades ago, neither driver would have tried that at Copse, because they knew that if they got it wrong, they *would* be hurt. When I started watching motor racing, the cars were still made from aluminium honeycomb, and then, that likely would have been a fatal incident, with the chassis ended up being pretzeled around the driver. If anything, too much risk has been removed from the sport - drivers seem to be immune to the fact that sometimes the sport *does* bite back. I think Max learned that today.
Regarding Tsunoda's penalty in Austria - he had done that multiple times during the meeting. The reason that white line is there, is to separate slow cars leaving the pits from those running at full speed on the racing line. If there is no separation, there is the chance of the car leaving the pits being speared in a side impact. If the nose of the car travelling at high speed goes into the side of the cockpit of a slower car, there is a high chance of serious injury or even a fatality.
Credit to Hamilton chasing down LeClerk to pip him to the win. Great drive
