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Martin Brundle has questioned why Max Verstappen escaped punishment when Lando Norris was penalised by the stewards.

The ex-F1 driver, who co-commentates on races for Sky Sports F1, explained why he felt the Dutchman should have been taken to task by the stewards in Austin for running Norris off the track.

“As far as I’m concerned, if you pass a car on the inside of a corner, while remaining under control and not locked up, and keeping within the track confines, then you have won the corner and can take the normal racing line through the exit,” Brundle wrote in his regular Sky column.

“And it’s up to the driver who has been passed to yield, not to hit the throttle and inevitably run wide. George Russell took an unreasonable penalty for this in Austin because the guidelines had to be applied. As have others.

“If Russell was penalised for running Valtteri Bottas wide, shouldn’t Verstappen have been penalised for running Norris wide at the same corner?

“And here’s another question: given Norris had passed Verstappen down the outside before Turn 12, when Verstappen sailed back up the inside, who was actually doing the overtaking at the corner apex, Verstappen or Norris?”