Hamilton prevented Ricciardo from passing him after going off the track while leading the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix but wasn’t penalised:

There’s certainly some similarities with it, there is. And if they do take that then he didn’t get a penalty so Seb shouldn’t have got one. They were pretty similar.

I think to be honest in Seb’s defence – to bias that situation even more towards him, and I’m not taking sides I’m just putting it how it is – he had to go across grass. So he made a mistake, yes, but in a way he kind of paid a bit more of a price because he went across grass, could’ve maybe lost the car there, had dirt on his tyres. So he kind of already paid a little penalty, where Lewis went across Tarmac so he just kind of cut the corner and got away with it. So I would bias it even more towards not giving Seb a penalty in that scenario and they didn’t give Lewis one.

And I think that day I was pretty filthy about it. But I was more filthy about the pit stop incident. I probably said Lewis should have got a penalty. I’m not mad that it didn’t get handed. But looking at Montreal I don’t think that should have been.