McLaren requests review of Lando Norris' "leaving the track to overtake" penalty at US GP

If you're McLaren you have to file this. Will it get them any points though?

Depends on what the new evidence is and if it's definitive. I wish they would've given more details but I suppose it will come out eventually.
- Also interested in knowing
  
  Maybe it’s telemetry data from Max?
  
  It should be clear that Max had no intention of ever making the corner, he only wanted to get to the apex first so that he can “claim” it according to the new rules.

I don't understand the stewards on this one. The attacker has to prepare for a pass this late in the race. It's a fighter in round 5 creating an opportunity to win. You can't cheap shot the attacker and then go "guess you'll have to try again." It makes no sense.

They even tell teams to handle off track incidents themselves before they get involved. Well the defender went off the track because they lost control (aka purposely came off the brake) and couldn't make the corner. The defender destroyed all that preparation by leaving the track, thereby gaining a multiple lap advantage! Clearly the attacking car should keep the place. But now it's up to the stewards to decide apparently.

Two wrongs don't make a right. Both Verstappen and Norris were in the wrong and of the two Norris was clearly the one gaining a bigger advantage from his wrong, gaining a position VS maintaining a position.

If you penalize neither driver then Norris gains an advantage.

If you penalize just Verstappen Norris gains an even bigger advantage.

If you penalize Norris he gets a disadvantage with his advantage.

If you penalize both then it's as if nobody got penalized.

If you penalize both but Norris more severely you get the same outcome as if you've penalized only Norris.

You might not like it but Norris deserved that penalty, what he did was against the rules. What Norris should've done is give the position back and try to get a penalty for Max for pushing Norris off the track.

Edit: seems like a lot of people are letting their objectivity be clouded by their dislike of Max. Ask yourself, if the roles were reversed, would you be making the same arguments? Would you also argue that Max overtaking offytrack shouldn't be penalized or that Lando pushing Max off track should be penalized? To me the drivers don't matter, whoever took a position off track should be penalized first. If they had given the position back the driver pushing off track should be penalized. Penalizing both equally means nobody got penalized and one driver got away with an unfair overtake.
- I agree with your assessment.
  My solution in this case would be: 5 second penalty to NOR, like they issued and 10 second penalty to VER for driving unfairly and with ill intent for the millionth time.
- I'd go with 5 seconds penalty for Lando overtaking off track and a 5 seconds penalty for max for forcing another driver off track. Lando would have made the corner, max chose not to.
- I agree that Lando broke the rules, don't get me wrong. Max is phenomenal at everything, finding the limit everywhere.
  
  I guess there's no leeway for when a car passes off track so the stewards can't do much. Or maybe the logic is that cars must decide when to give a position up, but never to take a portion.