Hamilton crosses the pit exit line and gets a five second penalty added to his race time.
Suddenly it is because he is a tax exile, black, bling merchant, singer dater and earring wearer.
No! The rule has been there forever and it matters not if you are on your own or surrounded by other cars - you get a penalty. In the near past it would have been a drive-through or a ten second stop-go. Either of those would have put Hamilton in fifth place, maybe sixth.
Hamilton was driving the car and deciding where it would be on the track; he was lucky he came in second in Austria.