{"id":180919,"date":"2025-10-05T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180919\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T23:27:10","slug":"lewis-hamilton-drops-behind-fernando-alonso-after-being-hit-with-post-race-time-penalty-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180919\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton drops behind Fernando Alonso after being hit with post-race time penalty in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">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<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">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<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">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<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">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<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\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<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\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<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-180919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}