“It used to be a reward of the bravest to go around the outside, I think we’re in danger of flipping the overtaking laws upside down, where drivers will just try to get their nose ahead at the apex and then claim that they have to be given room on the exit.
“And you can see quite clearly he’s effectively come off the brakes, gone in super, super late to try and win that argument as far as the way these regulations are written, and then at that point you’re penalised.
“Now every karting circuit, every indoor karting circuit around the world, if you’ve got the inside line you control the corner. It’s one of the principles and the physics of racing. So, they just need to get back to basics that if you’re on the outside you don’t have priority. Otherwise we will end up with a mess over these last five races.”
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What about the Turn 8 moment?
Horner understood why a penalty was handed out for the second clash. “The Turn 8 incident is different,” he said. “I think Max was expecting Lando to give up the place, he’s obviously gone up the inside there and they’ve both run wide.
“Arguably I can understand, effectively forcing the car wide there, why there would be a penalty applicable to that. But I think that was the frustration of potentially Lando not giving back the place from this incident here. So, these things, they only escalate.”
