Today's situation is more like Mark webber last year in Germany...where he was handed a drive-thru penalty, but he still fast enough to make up the bogey time and kept his lead and win. Also Nico Rosberg in Singapore 2008, where he pitted under safety car and pit lane still closed. He had a clear track and made enough time to just drop one grid into P3.
This time LH was lucky to have Kobayashi holding up JB and others behind so he has more than 25-30+ seconds to serve a drive though without losing gird position.
Was a bit disappointed to see JB gave up the fight with Kobayashi. Clearly the McLaren was so much faster, but he never give any pressure to the Japanese driver.
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