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The incident between the McLaren and Mercedes drivers happened on Lap 3 in the Sprint.
McLaren teammates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris have expressed their doubts over the penalty given to George Russell in the United States Grand Prix Sprint. They questioned the inconsistency in the application of penalties, as drivers sometimes have to let a driver back through after completing a pass off-track, but in this case, Russell was penalized despite not being able to let Piastri back through. Piastri believes that swapping the positions back should not be difficult in such circumstances. Norris highlighted that this issue has been discussed in drivers’ briefings before and that there is a lack of consistency in the penalties given for similar incidents. They believe that if someone does this in the race, they should not receive a harsher penalty.
Source: RacingNews 365
