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Why wasn't Hamilton given more than a ten second penalty?
Article To news overview © Mercedes The FIA's Race Director Michael Masi has explained why Lewis Hamilton wasn't given a bigger penalty than a ten second time penalty, despite being found predominantly at fault for the accident that took Red Bull's Max Verstappen out of the race. While Hamilton was given a ten second time penalty, which he could serve at his pit stop, the penalty wans't enough to stop him from recovering to win the race after overtaking Ferrari's Charles Leclerc with three laps to go. In light of the winning driver having taken out his main rival for the race win, Masi explained that the context of an incident is not taken into consideration. "I think one of the big...
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