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Stewards’ Rulings Decide Silverstone Podium as Hamilton Keeps Third

FIA rulings changed Silverstone results, applying a five-second start penalty to Lewis Hamilton, a reprimand for a late-seen yellow flag, a separate track-limits time addition to Kimi Antonelli.

Overview

  • Race stewards found Hamilton had moved his car before the lights and applied a five-second in-race penalty that he served during the British Grand Prix.
  • On lap 38 stewards issued only a reprimand for Hamilton’s passage through a yellow-flag zone after finding the yellow light panels and the steering-wheel warning reached him very late and his attention was on a nearby battle.
  • Kimi Antonelli received a post-race five-second time addition for track-limits violations that dropped him out of the top 10 and reshuffled finishing places.
  • The confirmed decisions left Hamilton third in the official classification and gained him 15 championship points relative to Antonelli, with pit-stop timing and a late safety car having shaped on-track position changes.
  • The episode highlights how trackside light panels, steering-wheel displays and steward discretion can change race outcomes and the title fight, and it will likely sharpen scrutiny of signalling and start-procedure enforcement going forward.