How long can it possibly take to choose what to do?

There's dangerous debris on the track, you've put yellow flags on the only DRS zone, and you leave it like that until it gets hit by someone several minutes later, then you leave it with scattered debris for another minute. In the mean time two people get their races ruined or made worse, and you also hand out a HUGE penalty for a driver missing a flag that should have been a VSC minimum from the start. So stupid.

The problem with inconsistent penalties is because there are a range of punishments for most offenses. Its meant to give discretion to the stewards to adjust the level depending on the malice and/or impact assigned to the offense. Obviously this completely falls down when you fail to define something so nebulous as malice or impact in these same rules and have different people interpreting it week to week.

If we had just one penalty for say forcing a driver off, or speeding in the pit lane, then had a multiplier if it was intentional or not, that would at least clear up the consistency around the size of a penalty. Overtaking by exceeding track limits should be a flat 10 second penalty for everyone as an example, not 5 seconds one week and 10 seconds the next.

Blocking on a hot lap should always be a 5 place grid drop, blocking on a slow lap should never be a penalty, but what even is the point of a 1 place drop? Like WTAF, its like they been told to punish Max (for something that should not be an offense) then chose the smallest possible punishment going.That simply shouldn't be possible.

Tbf the VSC wouldn't have helped as the field was pretty spread at the time. And a full safety is quite a big intervention for relatively minor debris, slightly off line. Also, it was about to be when ppl started pitting so throwing a safety car would have given most drivers a free pitstop and potentially killed the race. I don't like how it was handled but can understand why they did what they did at least.