Michael Schumacher was excluded from the 1997 championship for his unsportsmanlike actions. If Max continues running opponents off the road deliberately, as you suggest he is, he should face the same sanction.
Hey Jeri I'm not suggesting Max should do this stuff and continue doing it. What I am saying is his actions lessened Lando's points haul from Mexico.
If the aim is to win a WDC at the end of a season penalty risks amongst other strategies will be used.
I simply see Max achieved an objective with his aggressive driving and surely Heroes & Zeros rates not only how well drivers raced but how drivers & teams achieved results against the odds.
I say Max falls into the 2nd category. Ugly - yes, but achieved an objective and it was not just blind aggression.
If tracks didn't have these open prairies of run off more care would be taken by attacking & attacked drivers; neither would see any benefit of being in a gravel trap or sliding on grass.
Max is not the first champ or contender to run opponents off track, Lewis amongst many others has forced drivers wide so many times it's hard to count separate incidents. However most of it occurred before these current racing standards mandated
conditional room on outside for over takers.
In years gone by Lando would not have kept his foot in so often round outside, it would be a hiding to nothing, oh and it still was in Austin.