Fred Vasseur does not believe that all of Lewis Hamilton’s recent spate of F1 time penalties can be put into the “same basket.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Across the British, Belgian, and Hungarian Grands Prix, Hamilton has picked up a five-second time penalty in each race, but for three different incidents.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
At Silverstone, he was pinged for a false start, finishing third. At Spa, he received the sanction for causing a collision with George Russell on the opening lap that spun the Mercedes into retirement, although Russell felt it was a racing incident and not worth a penalty.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In Budapest, Hamilton received a pit-lane speeding penalty after exceeding the limit by 0.1kph after pitting, incorrectly, he believed, under the late VSC for Oscar Piastri’s retirement. Although he finished fourth on the road after a scrap with Kimi Antonelli for third, the Briton was demoted to fifth in the final results, as team-mate Charles Leclerc snatched fourth by 0.7s.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hamilton also picked up a pit-lane speeding penalty in Monaco, although it did not affect his second-place result, and also incurred a three-place grid drop in Budapest for impeding Piastri in Q3, dropping him from second on the grid to fifth.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Heading into the summer break, Hamilton is second in the drivers’ championship, now exactly 50 points behind leader Antonelli, but despite the unusual run of penalties for the seven-time champion, his Ferrari boss does not believe they should be considered as part of the “same basket.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It is difficult to put all the penalties into the same basket,” Vasseur said of Hamilton’s sanctions to media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“For me, the incident with Russell was a racing incident, and if he had to do it again, I would ask him to do exactly the same because he can’t go on the kerb.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“[The Hungarian GP] was probably a succession of mistakes: he locked the wheel during the pit-stop, we lost a couple of tenths, and then he was trying to be optimal on the pit-release, but it was a bit too early for the optimum.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“When you start to make mistakes, it is quite easy to do more than one, and this weekend is a good example that when we are trying to push during the pit-stop, we are losing something and then two-tenths behind [Antonelli] at the pit-exit, and it is a succession.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“The limit was 80kph, and the FIA agreed 80.5, and we did 80.6, and when the weekend is going in the wrong direction, 0.1kph is a big delta, and we took the penalty.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fred Vasseur does not believe that all of Lewis Hamilton’s recent spate of F1 time penalties can be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-830940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830940","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=830940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}