The thing is, the next race we're going to fucking Paul Ricard, which has about 12 areas a lap for this to happen again due to its shitty supermarket carpark with arbitrary white lines design.
And thinking about it, this race got so close to being a stone cold classic
If no penalty: Lewis and Seb will battle nose to tail until the final corner. Pretty tast for modern F1, even more so if they swapped positions a couple of times (we have no idea how the penalty affected the mental state of Seb and Lewis tbh, did Lewis genuinely want to pass or just lurk behind Vettel...)
Also: consider if Seb had actually hit Lewis and took them both out of the race
While the penalty he would receive would probably be a lot less controversial (10 places for France, I'd assume)
we'd have a Spain 2016 like effect with Leclerc winning his first race, Renault and Force India having a great day and Bottas gaining important points on Lewis to really close up the title fight between them
So yeah, while we got the suckiest of all possibilities, take some cheer that F1 fans in a parallel universe have had a pretty epic Grand Prix
