Overview

• Former FIA steward Johnny Herbert defended the Singapore stewards and said Lewis Hamilton “got his just deserts,” calling the corner-cutting “cheating.”
• Hamilton was penalised for exceeding track limits after nursing a worsening brake problem, triggering the standard five-second punishment under the black-and-white flag procedure.
• The sanction dropped Hamilton to eighth and lifted Fernando Alonso to seventh, with Alonso venting an expletive-laden radio message over the late-lap driving.
• Race reports noted Hamilton lost more than 40 seconds nursing the brake issue before incurring multiple track-limit breaches in the closing laps.
• Jamie Chadwick argued the corner-cutting likely yielded over five seconds and suggested the penalty was too light, while noting disqualification would hinge on a black-and-orange flag scenario.