The additional Lewis Hamilton punishment at the F1 Belgian Grand Prix that you didn’t notice
The Mercedes F1 driver was initially hit with a five-second time penalty for an incident with his Red Bull adversary,💃 when they went wheel-to-wheel and made contact.
Th🐠ose fiveไ seconds dropped Hamilton from P4 to P7 but the bad news would get even worse.
Hamilton was al💃so hit with two F1 penalty points for the incident.
He previously had a clean racing licence.
Which F1 driver has the most penalty points?
- Seven points - Lance Stroll
- Six points - Daniel Ricciardo
- Five points - Pierre Gasly
- Four points - George Russell
- Three points - Yuki Tsunoda
- Two points - Zhou Guanyu, Lando Norris, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, Nico Hulkenberg, Sergio Perez, Carlos Sainz, Max Verstappen
- One point - Alex Albon, Kevin Magnussen, Charles Leclerc
If a d🧸river receives 12 points on their licence 🍰over a 12-month period, it will result in a one-race ban.
Penalty points are in place to keep driver behaviour under control. P🌊oints can be issued depending on the severit𓂃y of an incident.
Hamilton verdict on time penalty
Hamilton said: “[Perez] was pretty slow and went wide and slow through 14. I got a great exit, I was more than half a car alongside him and we just ended 🀅up coming together.
“It was a bit of a racing in𝓡cident really, naturally it wasn’t intentional but they saw it differently.
“It was very tricky conditions out there, we were all trying our best. It doesn’t make a huge difference, fourth or seventh in the Sprint you d🀅on’t get a lot of points.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade cove𒉰ring everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
