{"id":69941,"date":"2025-10-10T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69941\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:33:14","slug":"lewis-hamilton-horrified-f1-pundit-with-what-he-did-at-the-singapore-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69941\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton \u2018horrified\u2019 F1 pundit with what he did at the Singapore Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christian Danner has called Ferrari star Lewis Hamilton out for his actions in the 2025 F1 Singapore Grand Prix, plus his comments after the Briton\u2019s P8 finish at Marina Bay.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old\u2019s wait for his first Grand Prix podium as a Ferrari<\/a> driver has now spanned 18 rounds following his latest disappointing result in red. Hamilton<\/a> had never failed to finish on a Grand Prix podium beyond the first 10 races of any F1 season<\/a> prior to joining the Scuderia.<\/p>\n

Hamilton has also failed to finish higher than P6 since the seven-time champion matched his best result as a Ferrari driver so far of P4 in July\u2019s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, six rounds ago. A time penalty received after the Singapore GP<\/a> also did not cause his plight to persist.<\/p>\n

Hamilton earned a five-second penalty in the Singapore GP<\/a> for exceeding track limits, which demoted the Ferrari driver from P7 to P8 after the chequered flag. The Stevenage-born star struggled to stay on the road throughout the final lap, after he developed a late brake issue.<\/p>\n

\"FerrariPhoto by Clive Rose \u2013 Formula 1\/Formula 1 via Getty ImagesChristian Danner was \u2018horrified\u2019 watching Lewis Hamilton continue with a brake issue in the Singapore Grand Prix<\/p>\n

Hamilton enraged Fernando Alonso in the Singapore GP<\/a> by skipping Marina Bay\u2019s chicanes to try to get his Ferrari to the chequered flag after losing most of his braking performance. He lost 51.202 seconds to the Aston Martin<\/a> driver after the problem arose on Lap 59 of 62.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton\u2019s life outside F1 from net worth to family<\/a><\/p>\n

Position Drivers’ Championship PointsPts 1 336 2 314 3 273 4 237 5 173 6 127 7 88 <\/p>\n

Alonso<\/a> even hit the finish line only 0.416s behind Hamilton, who was chasing Andrea Kimi Antonelli<\/a> of Mercedes over P5 before the issue occurred. So, Alonso turned Aston Martin\u2019s radio blue with his foul-mouthed rant, claiming \u201cYou can\u2019t drive like that\u201d as it was unsafe.<\/p>\n

Danner \u201ccertainly\u201d agrees with Alonso\u2019s view, as he was \u201chorrified\u201d watching Hamilton limp his Ferrari SF-25 home in the Singapore GP with the front-left brake not working fully. There were visible sparks leaving the brake, but Hamilton downplayed the problem after the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t say it\u2019s completely safe to drive a car around the track with three brake discs,\u201d Danner told Motorsport-Magazin. \u201cExcuse me but, normally, you have to stop immediately in a situation like that \u2013 even if there\u2019s only one lap left.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to say, I was horrified. And in that sense, you can certainly agree with Alonso, or rather understand why he was so annoyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

What did Lewis Hamilton say about his brake problem in the Singapore GP?<\/p>\n

Hamilton had only just got within range to attack Antonelli for P5 in the Singapore GP when his brake issue arose on L59. Ferrari had pitted him for a second time to switch onto the soft compound C5 Pirelli tyres on L46, along with ordering Charles Leclerc to let the Briton past.<\/p>\n

But the 105-time Grand Prix winner never got a real chance to overtake the Italian rookie, as sparks left his front-left drum while braking for Turn 16. Hamilton instantly noticed the issue, so he backed off. But his decision to also cut the chicanes in the final laps merited a penalty.<\/p>\n

Hamilton told Sky Sports<\/a> after the Singapore GP that reducing his pace meant the brake did not fail completely. The issue stemmed from Ferrari running smaller brake discs than any F1 team to try to reduce drag, but the material wore out quicker due to the brakes overheating.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was catching Kimi then the brakes gave up,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cYou saw the spark coming off the left front. I had to back off to cool them down, and when I cooled them down, they came back a bit, but still not fully there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leclerc had a brake issue from Lap 7 of the Singapore GP<\/a>, as well, which ensured he did not push as much as Hamilton tried to. The Monegasque\u2019s more withheld approach helped him to finish the race in P6, 34.67s up the road from Alonso, after he re-passed Hamilton late on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Christian Danner has called Ferrari star Lewis Hamilton out for his actions in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[55739,55740,3517,3513,111,139,69,50116,213],"class_list":["post-69941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-christian-danner","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-ferrari","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-singapore-grand-prix","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}