{"id":192910,"date":"2025-10-06T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/192910\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:22:09","slug":"lewis-hamiltons-singapore-gp-final-lap-team-radio-as-it-happened-after-critical-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/192910\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton’s Singapore GP Final Lap Team Radio As It Happened After Critical Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton’s Singapore Grand Prix took a dramatic turn in the final three laps as he suffered a brake failure on his Ferrari.<\/a><\/p>\n

The seven-time Formula 1 world champion has taken a step forward in recent races and has managed to compete with teammate Charles Leclerc, even if the Scuderia is unable to challenge McLaren, Mercedes and Red Bull for podiums.<\/p>\n

Hamilton had found himself running seventh for the majority of the 62-lap event at the Marina Bay Circuit on Sunday<\/a>, but with a sizable gap back to Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin in the final half of the race, Ferrari opted to pit him for a set of soft tires – the only driver to pit on two occasions.<\/p>\n

The ploy worked as he flew up to the back of Leclerc who swiftly allowed his teammate through by way of team orders to allow Hamilton to mount a challenge on Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli for fifth.<\/p>\n

With the Italian rookie on far older and harder tires, Hamilton looked certain to take the position only for sparks to fly from his left-front brake disc with just over two laps remaining, leading to a state of survival to try and reach the checkered flag.<\/p>\n

Hamilton team radio as it happened\"Lewis<\/p>\n

Scuderia Ferrari<\/p>\n

Out of Turn 14 on lap 60, Hamilton radios his pitwall to say: “Losing my brakes mate.”<\/p>\n

Race engineer Ricardo Adami replied: “Ok, we suggest lift and coast.”<\/p>\n

Hamilton continues his complaints – “Yeah, I’m losing big time,” – before sparks emerge at Turn 16, where he says: “I’ve lost my brakes, lost my left front.”<\/p>\n

After a lap of running off-track as he battled the car, he faced a stiff test on the final lap to hold off Alonso’s advances.<\/p>\n

Adami tried to rally his driver: “Max as you can and engine braking as you are doing. Alonso 16 seconds behind, one more lap.”<\/p>\n

The gap had dripped by the time Hamilton got to Turn 6: “Alonso 10 seconds behind,” Adami told him.<\/p>\n

Out of Turn 9, Hamilton was reminded “Don’t cut the corners,” to which he replied: “Ah, I’m not trying to cut corners mate.”<\/p>\n

LAP 60\/62 <\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcfb “I’ve lost my brakes”<\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton saying what you never want to hear from a driver, but he’s still continuing \ud83d\udcaa#F1<\/a> #SingaporeGP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/8B0iTu8K9w<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) October 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

“Understood. Alonso five behind,” was Adami’s response.<\/p>\n

The Italian gave another update on the gap to the Aston Martin: “Alonso 2.5 behind.”<\/p>\n

But that was to be the last update as Hamilton pleaded: “Just leave me to it mate, leave me to it.”<\/p>\n

Hamilton would ultimately cross the line less than a second ahead of Alonso having lost 35 seconds to Leclerc in the two laps after the failure.<\/p>\n

But an investigation into his multiple track limit breaches saw F1’s race stewards impose a five-second penalty to drop Hamilton behind his former McLaren teammate Alonso and into eighth.<\/p>\n

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