Overview

• Lewis Hamilton received a five-second post-race penalty for leaving the circuit multiple times late on, dropping him from seventh to eighth in Singapore.
• Fernando Alonso was promoted to seventh after finishing 0.4s behind Hamilton, having raged over radio about the Ferrari driver continuing with failing brakes.
• The stewards reviewed marshalling data, in-car and TV footage, and team radio before deciding the brake issue was not a justifiable reason to breach track limits.
• Hamilton reported losing his left-front brakes, with sparks and brake dust seen on broadcast, and he was shown a black-and-white flag after a series of late infringements.
• Earlier in the stint Ferrari instructed Charles Leclerc to let Hamilton through to attack Andrea Kimi Antonelli, and Hamilton later asked whether the situation counted as force majeure, a point not upheld and not contested by the team.