I'm just going from what Horner said. My point is they had nothing on their dash, light panels weren't yellow, DRS was enabled, the only yellow flag was on the other side of the circuit to the stopped car, miles away from the track because of all the run off, with a bright blue light panel immediately before it to add to the distraction. How are you meant to see that at nearly 200mph?

I meant the scoring box overlay. It showed yellow in sector 3. Then switched to green again and then yellow again.

I'm just going from what Horner said. My point is they had nothing on their dash, light panels weren't yellow, DRS was enabled, the only yellow flag was on the other side of the circuit to the stopped car, miles away from the track because of all the run off, with a bright blue light panel immediately before it to add to the distraction. How are you meant to see that at nearly 200mph?

But Alonso who was in front of Bottas was on a hot one and he slowed down.

Yeah I think he said he saw the stopped car and assumed there would be yellows/reds, I don't know if he actually saw any flags. Again, I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be a penalty, I'm arguing that the situation was completely unclear

Unfortunately, that's the common sense that F1 often lacks. It's qualifying and there is a car stopped on the track. It's a given that you aren't improving on this lap.