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Lewis Hamilton's Singapore GP penalty questioned: "Gained more than five seconds"

Jamie Chadwick has analysed Lewis Hamilton’s Singapore Grand Prix penalty, arguing that cutting corners should result in more than a five-second punishment.

The British driver was managing a brake failure in the closing laps of the race at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. While he managed to finish the race, he was hit with a five-second penalty post-race for “leaving the track without justifiable reason multiple times", moving him from seventh to eighth in the finishing order.

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