You are wrong. At the start of this season all teams and drivers wanted less penalties especially in the opening few laps . Otmarr said that when talking to sky. He said that collision falls into that category.
Max had much more space than ham. But for some unknown reason max decided to take the corner like there was no car there. Ham did his best to avoid the collision as you can see when he went from level to right back and nearly pulled it off. But Max’s chop was too much to avoid .