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Originally Posted by Woolley
So let's consider a proper penalty. Max Verstappen improves his time under yellow flags whilst my Mexican marshalling colleagues are trackside. He then boasts of it in the driver's conference. He gets a three place grid penalty. For putting people's lives at risk, let's not beat about the bush with this.
If it was down to me, he'd have spent Sunday on a marshal's post having donated his salary to the marshals' club. Preferably on the post which he so carelessly disregarded.
Complete and utter knob.
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Agree - particularly with your last sentence.
It's not uncommon for drivers and trackside officials to have differing views on slowing for a yellow flag and how much slower is OK - if not judged to have slowed enough, the grid penalty MAY have been reasonable.
However, to go faster in a yellow flag zone AND then boast about it and dismiss the need to go slower in interviews afterwards - that is pure knob-jockey behaviour and is deserving of having his chain pulled - hard. Having him sit out the race, or removing a swathe of points & start from pit lane or as you suggest, sit it out and marshal for the race, all seem commensurate to me.
Did he lose of his licence points as well as the grid position drop?