Too close? Hamilton let the safety car go too FAR, the limit is 5 car lengths (until the safety car starts to enter pits), and you need to drive in line behind it, not go crawling around every corner as far as you can That's far from "taking a wide line" - he went practicly to full stop there and way out of the usual lines, even if you talk about wide lines. ¨ It's irrelevant if Vettel got distracted, there's nothing wrong with him getting penalized (too), but the problem is that Hamilton drove against the rules, which caused Webber to brake which caused Vettel to crash to him