Lewis Hamilton more than halfway towards an F1 race ban
Lewi𓂃s Hamilton has been handed two penalty points for his clash with Alexander Albon during the Austrian Grand Prix, 🐈moving him to within five points of a Formula 1 race ban.
The six-times world champion now has a toꦅtal♈ of seven penalty points and is more than halfway towards being banned from a grand prix.
Drivers will be forced to miss a world championship race if they accumulate 12 penalty poi🧸nts on their superlicence within the space of 12 months.
Lewis Hamilton has🌼 been handed two penalty points for his clash wꦡith Alexander Albon during the Austrian Grand Prix, moving him to within five points of a Formula 1 race ban.
The six-times world champion✃ now has a total of seven penalty points and is more than halfway towards being banned from a grand prix.
Drivers will be forced to miss a world championship race if they accumulate 12 penalty points on their superlicence within the space of 🌞12 months.
Hamilton had already received two penalty points for failing to slow for yellow flags d✤uring qualifying, leading to him being given a three-place grid drop for Sunday’s Austrian GP.
The Mercedes driver then collided with Albon’s Red Bull in the closing ♚stages and was slapped with a five-second time penalty that dropped him to fourth at the finish.
Following an inves🌳tigation into the incident, the Austrian GP stewards concluded that Hamilton had been “predominately to blame”.
— Formula 1 (@F1)“The stewards reviewed ܫvideo evidence showing that cars 23 [Albon] and 44 [Hamilton] were side by side approaching the apex of turn four,” the stewards noted.
“They negotiated the turn side by side, buꦆt car 23 had a better exit and was in the process of passing car 44.
“Car 44 was drafting to the outside at the exit of turn four and consequent♈ly making contact with the rear right wheel of car 23, causing car 23 to spin.
“The stewards determined that the driver of car 44 is predominantly to blameꦏ for the collision.”
A visibly disappointed Hamilton accepted his punishment after the race and admitted his costly mistake in Q3 was “entirely my𓃲 fault”.
“Yesterday was entirely my fault, it was a bit odd in the preparaওtion [to the race] that they gave the penalty but it is what it is,” Hamilton said.
“It didn’t destabilise me, it eꦬncou♛raged me to just go out there and drive the best I could.
“It wasꦡ a reall▨y unfortunate situation with Alex, I can’t believe we’ve come together again but it really felt like a racing incident.
“Eit⛦h💞er way, I’ll take whatever penalty they feel I deserve and move forwards.”
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