{"id":274266,"date":"2025-11-09T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274266\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:57:11","slug":"lewis-hamilton-labels-race-stewards-a-complete-joke-after-brazilian-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274266\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton labels race stewards ‘a complete joke’ after Brazilian Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton<\/a> has again clashed with the race stewards after he was hit with a five-second penalty to add to his abhorrent weekend in Brazil.<\/p>\n

The honorary Brazilian was fuming on his team radio after an opening lap clash with Alpine’s Franco Colapinto caused the Ferrari<\/a> driver to cop a time penalty.<\/p>\n

“These guys are a joke. A complete joke,” said the seven-time world champion on his team radio.<\/p>\n

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The stewards deemed him “wholly responsible” for crashing into the back of Colapinto and also took one point from Hamilton’s super licence for the collision.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old eventually retired from the grand prix on lap 40 after he broke his front wing and his car was unable to continue with irreparable damage.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the race, Hamilton called it “a weekend to forget” for the Scuderia. <\/p>\n

“I mean, jeez, this is definitely a weekend to forget,” he lamented.<\/p>\n

\"Franco<\/p>\n

Franco Colapinto of Argentina leads Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“This is a nightmare, and I’ve been living it for a while,” he added after his qualifying performance that saw him start from 13th on the grid.<\/p>\n

“The flip between the dream of driving for this amazing team (Ferrari), and then the nightmare of results that we’ve had, the ups and downs, it is challenging.”<\/p>\n

It is not the first time Hamilton has clashed with the race stewards and their penalty rulings in recent races.<\/p>\n

This is the second time penalty that Hamilton has picked up in as many races.<\/p>\n

In Mexico he was slapped with a 10-second penalty for “gaining a lasting advantage” off the track after a skirmish with Max Verstappen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the Mexico City Grand Prix, he argued that race stewards needed “transparency and accountability” in the decisions.<\/p>\n

He believed there needed to be clearer rules on the everchanging lenience given to drivers on the opening laps of the race.<\/p>\n

“There isn’t any clarity and I think that’s probably part of the bigger issue,” he argued.<\/p>\n

\"Lewis<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain and Scuderia Ferrari. \u00a0LAT Images<\/p>\n

“Transparency and accountability. And also the secrecy that the decisions are made in.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know if they’re aware of the weight of their decisions. They ultimately steer careers.<\/p>\n

“Can decide results of championships, as you’ve seen in the past. Some work needs to be done there, I’m sure.”<\/p>\n

Hamilton is now without a top-three finish in 21 appearances for Ferrari and his team have slipped down the constructors’ championship order into fourth after both Charles Leclerc<\/a> and Hamilton failed to finish in Interlagos.<\/p>\n

Formula 1<\/a> will resume racing in Las Vegas on November 21. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has again clashed with the race stewards after he was hit with a five-second penalty to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-274266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274266","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=274266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}