On the fairness of Hamilton being able to continue to victory with his rival in the barrier, Masi explained: "One of the big parts that has been a mainstay for many many years, and this came through discussions prior to my time between all of the teams, the FIA and F1, and the team principals were all quite adamant, you should not consider the consequences in an incident.
"So when they are judging incidents, they judge the incident itself and the narrative of the incident and not what happens afterwards as a consequence.
"That is something the stewards have done for many years and have been advised from the top down.
"That's the way the stewards judge it because if you start taking consequences into account there are so many variables instead of judging the incident itself on its merit."