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Lewis Hamilton ’ s opinion : “ The stewards needs to come up with some kind of solution because it is … the whole 23 years of racing , it has been ‘ if it ’ s yellow flag , you slow down ’ and if it ’ s double yellow flag , you be prepared to stop and Nico was doing the same speed at the apex as I was doing on the previous timed lap .”
“ If there happened to be a car that was spun or a marshal on the track , it would have been pretty hard for him to have slowed down in that case , so that ’ s why … and the fact that he didn ’ t get penalised for it means that we need to be careful because the message we ’ re sending not only to the drivers here but also to the drivers in the lower categories is that it ’ s now possible for you to lose only one tenth of a second in a double waved yellow flag section which is one of the most dangerous scenarios with the double yellow flags .”
“ They need to clear that up . Before it was two tenths that you were meant to lose with one yellow flag and half a second with two yellow flags .”
“ It wasn ’ t the case yesterday and there was no penalty , so going into the next race , we could be battling for pole position and we see double yellow flags and we know we only have to do a small lift and lose one tenth of a second and we ’ ll be fine and go purple in the sector . “
“ So that ’ s why it does need to be clarified and I ’ m sure Charlie and the stewards are going to do so because it needs to be clear .”