Apparently the race director or whomever had said in writing on Friday that the track limits would be enforced in qualifying by deletion of times when limits were exceeded, but not in the race.
After Verstappen/Red Bull queried it during the race, that was verbally? revised (or clarified, depending which end of the telescope you are looking down) to the effect that track limits at turn 4 should be observed.
There's also the point that overtaking off track tends to be against the rules anyway although there might be argument about whether somebody had been forced off (as opposed to just blocked or squeezed while the blockee was not fully alongside, which would be fair if the blocker was on the racing line).
One might reasonably expect in general there to be a penalty or at least a warning if track limits were being crossed in order to gain an advantage - that's where the anomaly is IMO, because why would the drivers who were doing it on every lap - Hamilton and Bottas among them - be doing it otherwise?
I don't think it was very clear who had committed what infractions to be honest. It's as clear as mud in the report on Sky News
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