Horner labelled the stewards’ decision as “very harsh”, bringing numerous printouts of telemetry and GPS data to a post-race media session to demonstrate that Norris would not have made the corner at Turn 4 no matter what.

“There’s great racing going on and I think it’s just important that the rules of engagement are fair, rather than giving an advantage to the outside line,” the Team Principal explained.

“Being on the outside has always been the more risky place to be, but now it’s almost the advantage, because all you’ve got to do is have your nose ahead at the point they turn irrelevant of whether you’re going to make the corner or not.

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“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.

“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 in the physics of racing and I think that they just need to get back to basics that if you’re on the outside, you don’t have priority.”

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