Albon’s fifth place confirmed after Red Bull ‘grid drying’ investigation – RaceFans

That’s exactly what @bascb was talking about @slotopen, because in fact this case is ‘easy’ for the rules – there is a hard rule that wrong grid slot == penalty, just like car measurements wrong == DSQ, or grid-sensor measures movement before lights out = penalty (but the sensor has a window of accuracy, Bottas got lucky of sorts) – for the ‘novel’ way of drying/incidental drying/not drying, it is not formulated that way, and thus the stewards can judge the evidence.
That’s what I meant with be…

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