Well, Australia showed you that especially the top teams don't have that fabled reliability these days
Also, even a week later, that Alonso penalty is still triggering me.
Getting a penalty for slowing down slightly, losing time, and just generally making a .5 second losing move, to maybe recharge the battery more for the next defense, having a better exit out of the turn, and maybe forcing Russell into an awkward position in the corner.
Since when can we not expect from a racing driver that they react to slight changes in their competitors behavior? 40kp/h is not a "crazy closing rate" like some proponents of the penalty appear to assume - even less so at the speed they are going.
Yes, being .7 seconds apart might make this a bit more tricky - but the slow-down was over a hundred meters, where Russell would in any case be expecting to catch up.
Crashing in that situation looks like you regular rookie mistake to me, of which Russell has been making too many.
I do hope another set of stewards has a look at it. In Djeddah '21 Max only got penalized because he significantly hit the brakes (and I would still blame Hamilton for not just driving by a slowing competitor, or at least playing DRS chicken side-by-side).
I also wonder whether the penalties in general will be reworked. I like having more severe penalties available more frequently, but I also feel that less catastrophic penalties need to be available for those situations when a black and white flag is too little, but a ten seconds penalty too much. Of course, the more granular it becomes, the more we will complain about specific penalties