Giving a "Self explanatory" as the reason for the penalty is just arrogant behaviour from the stewards, if you ask me. What is actually the self explanatory part of the incident? Sure the Fact, Offence and Decision parts explain a lot, but they could have been more politically correct with their reasoning. We've seen similar overtaking manouvers where penalties have not been given. Were those incidents called "self explanatory" also?

Reason "Self Explanatory"

Great advantage to accelerate on kerbs and painted tarmac... *HIRN-PAUL-SMILIE-HERE*

Karma pays it back,Redbull is every race on the limit of the regulations,and simply fu**k with other teams,their every part is on the limit of rules,but against the spirit of sport.

I might ask the mods to make a new rule - anyone who doesn't know what Bernies job actually is gets banned.

There's a spelling/grammar error as well ...

If there were gravel or grass Vettel would simply back off, but with so manny stupid run off tarmacs FIA f..... up themselves and the drivers big time. Bring back at least grass and no one would overtake on grass.

So now we're in a situation that the FIA will safety car and red flag a race because of a bit of water, which MIGHT be dangerous (but the drivers can self police themselves with their right foot) but keep a race going through an almost literal minefield of debris, possibly risking drivers having a blowout at 200mph on the next long straight.

Madness, should've at least been a SC for the first lap debris. Ridiculous.

I agree with the Vettel penalty though. The tarmac shouldn't be there, agreed also but you don't go out there to complete a pass.
Especially if Button had been even slightly more alongside, the part where the run off ends and Vettel had to jink his way back on track could've been very dangerous indeed.

Derek Wawrick has explained about the stewarding before, all the stewards really decide is if the offense is against the rules or not, if they come to a decision it is, they open the rulebook and read the penalty out, they get no say in how severe a penalty is, that's not what they're there for.

Who does decide the severity of the penalty? AFAIK, there isn't specified penalties for offences within the regs.

If there were gravel or grass Vettel would simply back off, but with so manny stupid run off tarmacs FIA f..... up themselves and the drivers big time. Bring back at least grass and no one would overtake on grass.