Lewis Hamilton dismissed comparisons between Sebastian Vettel’s penalty that cost him Canadian Grand Prix victory and his ౠown sanction at Spa 11 years ago, cℱalling the incidents “a lot different”.

Hamilton took his fifth wi🐻n of the year in Montreal on Sunday after Vettel – the winner on-track – was relegated to second place due to a time penalty for unsafely rejoining the track when defending the lead from Hamilton.

It was the first time a driver had lost victory in su🎀ch fashion since the 2008 Belgian Grand Prix, when Hamilton was given a post-race time penalty for gaining an advantage off-track during his fight with Kimi Raikkonen, dropping him to second pla🐈ce.

However, Hamilton knocked back such comparisons when speaking after th𝔍e race, saying he was informed that he was withinඣ the rules when battling Raikkonen at Spa.

“I🀅 don’t think you can rela💫te it necessarily to 2008, because in 2008 I made an error,” Hamilton said.

“Obviously 💜I overtook someone off track and then had to let them past and then overtook them again but back then, my team asked Charlie [Whiting, race director] whether the overtake was OK. Charlie came back and said it was totally fine, but if he had come back and told us at the time that it wasn’t OK, I would have let him back past and overtook him again.

“But the rest of that race was crazy, you know. I went off, he overtook me ꦯand then he spun and then I overtook him a꧑gain and then he crashed and then I won the race – and I still got penalised at the end.

“So it was a lot different, but I do understand what it’s like to naturally lose a raౠce. It’s definitely n𓆉ot the way you want to win a race.

🌊“It’s not the way you want to lose a race also, especially w𓃲hen you’ve driven so well.”

The win for Hamilton allowed himꦆ to extend his lead in the F1 drivers’ championship to 29 points over Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas, who finished fourth🌄 in Canada.