Lewis Hamilton has lost his seventh-place finish in Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix to Fernando Alonso due to a post-race penalty.<\/p>\n
Hamilton was coasting his Ferrari to the finish in the closing laps in Singapore, struggling with braking woes that ended his chase of Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes, cost him a position to team-mate Charles Leclerc, and left him vulnerable to Alonso in the closing laps of the race.<\/p>\n
He crossed the line just four tenths ahead of Alonso, but that seventh-place finish was immediately placed in doubt when Hamilton was summoned to the stewards for a track-limits infringement.<\/p>\n
That was for leaving the track too many times: any driver who leaves the track four times will be penalised.<\/p>\n
Neither Ferrari nor Hamilton contested that he had broken the rules and he was subsequently handed a five-second time penalty.<\/p>\n
“During the hearing, [Hamilton] confirmed that he left the track at several occasions,” the stewards’ verdict read.<\/p>\n
“He was trying to manage a brakes issue situation. This being said, after further investigation, and in accordance with the list of exemptions foreseen in the driving standards guidelines, the stewards considered that this was not a justifiable reason and apply the usual penalty for such type of infringement.<\/p>\n
“This was not contested by the team representative nor the driver.”<\/p>\n
Hamilton’s penalty dropped him to eighth place, with Alonso earning an extra two points for seventh – his best result since he finished fifth in the Hungarian GP in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has lost his seventh-place finish in Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix to Fernando Alonso due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-191791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}