Fair comment.Unfortunately the F1 stewarding always has problems, hence all the complaints about it over the years, they let politics get in the way - which is exactly what the 10s penalty was, that was a racing incident and the 10s was just to placate Horner/RB fans - plus all the bitching from the teams that you saw today over the radio. If I was a steward and that's what I kept getting constantly from teams under investigation, constantly yammered at while trying to look at evidence, I'd exclude both teams just for trying to interfere with the stewards and race controls decisions.
I was lucky the worst penalty I ever gave was against a team my son was racing for.
Being a class 2 football referee helped as it allowed me to be able to detach myself from the outcome and just the incident /penalty.