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I still don't get your point about Schumacher and the illegitimate rule. I was specifically referring to the incident out of Curve Grande where Schumacher had a poor exit, stayed left and only moved to block when Hamilton got out of his slipstream to overtake. That looked like illegally impeding another driver to me even though some would argue he used up his one move to defend allowance. But as i said, he veered across the track to impede the driver behind from passing. The main issue with the whole incident is that we cannot even complain that they enforced the regulations incorrectly because the incident was not invesitaged let alone any regulations enforced.  An off the record agreement was reached with Charlie and it was back to racing. He has a habit of doing this and teams have fallen foul of the stewards when they've been told one thing only for the decision to be overruled, especially when Alan Donnelly was around. No stewards report was produced on the Schumacher incident as a result of the non investigation so nothing was captured on record. The stewards could certainly do with a bank of video footage for reference from circuit to circuit so I'm all for it. It won't be an easy task to put together and drawing parallels with past events can open a can of worms. Even when you look back on all the racing incidents this year, almost every one of them is unique.