Overview
- Lewis Hamilton called for procedural changes after receiving a 10‑second penalty in Mexico for going off at Turn 4 and being judged to have gained a lasting advantage.
- He said there is no clarity on how stewards reach decisions and criticized what he described as secrecy in deliberations.
- The penalty dropped him from a potential top‑four result to eighth after starting third, which he argued affected his race outcome significantly.
- Verstappen and Charles Leclerc cut across the grass at Turn 1 and were not penalized, with stewards deeming earlier contact a racing incident, intensifying concerns about consistency.
- Hamilton’s comments were echoed by George Russell, who questioned the lack of penalties for off‑track gains and criticized the Mexico corner sequence that enabled such incidents.