Lewis Hamilton has been given a five-second time penalty following the Singapore Grand Prix, meaning the Ferrari driver falls from seventh to eighth in the finishing order.<\/p>\n
It comes after Hamilton was found guilty of \u201cleaving the track without justifiable reason multiple times\u201d while managing a brake issue on his car in the closing stages of Sunday night\u2019s race.<\/p>\n
Having finished the encounter just four-tenths ahead of Aston Martin rival Fernando Alonso, Hamilton drops back to eighth position, losing a couple of points in the process.<\/p>\n
In their post-race investigation, the stewards noted a breach of Article 33.3 of the FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations and Article 12.2.1 i) of the International Sporting Code \u2013 non-compliance with Race Director\u2019s Event Note (item 21.1, document 13).<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the hearing, the driver confirmed that he left the track [on] several occasions,\u201d read the stewards\u2019 report. \u201cHe was trying to manage a brakes issue situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis 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
\u201cThis was not contested by the team representative nor the driver.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has been given a five-second time penalty following the Singapore Grand Prix, meaning the Ferrari driver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-192123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}