Webber: Driving etiquette easy to clarify

Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA) director Mark Webber thinks it will be easy to clarify driving etiquette regulations about cutting chicanes to prevent a repeat of the Spa controversy

With drivers due to discuss the matter with Formula One race director Charlie Whiting in Friday evening's briefing, Webber thinks settling the matter will be easy.

"I think it is quite straightforward," he said. "All you have to do is make sure it goes back to position at the next corner.

"It is like here at Monza. If I miss the first chicane and let the guy back through, jump back on his tail and do him at the second chicane, then I would never have done that if I hadn't jumped the first chicane.

"That is something I should be penalised for - and it is exactly what Lewis did."

Webber also rubbished any suggestions that the penalty handed down to Hamilton at Spa is going to act as a deterrent for other drivers when it comes to overtaking.

"You don't get penalised for overtaking people. Lewis did not get penalised for the move itself. He got penalised for taking an advantage from the previous corner."

He added: "I was a bit surprised that he lost the victory but I also felt that if he passed him after Eau Rouge then it would not even have been a subject. But it is very, very easy to think like that and talk like that after the event.

"He was clearly in a good position to attack at La Source because of missing the chicane at the previous corner. Speeds over the start/finish line are totally irrelevant because I think when you miss the previous corner then Kimi is on full throttle, he had no choice but to be full throttle, but Lewis could tune his attack for the next corner.