Penalised Lewis Hamilton explains costly brake failure at F1 Singapore Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton has defined his expensive late brake failure that ruined his Singapore Grand Prix.

Seven-time world champion Hamilton had been chasing down Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes for fifth place within the closing phases of Sunday’s race when he encountered braking woes.

Hamilton needed to nurse his ailing Ferrari house and misplaced a place to teammate Charles Leclerc. 

The 40-year-old Briton was additionally left weak to Fernando Alonso although he managed to fend off the Aston Martin driver to take seventh on the highway.

However Hamilton was hit with a five-second time penalty post-race which demoted him to eighth behind Alonso for repeatedly exceeding monitor limits.

“It was an okay race, I didn’t get an important begin. It was very tough to overhaul and I used to be form of caught in place,” Hamilton defined.

“On the finish I used to be catching Kimi after which brakes gave up. You noticed the spark come out of the left entrance after which I simply needed to again off to chill them down.

“Once I cooled them down they got here again somewhat bit, however nonetheless not again on the finish.”

Alonso fumed at Hamilton in a foul-mouthed radio rant after the chequered flag however Ferrari workforce principal Fred Vasseur downplayed security considerations surrounding the state of his driver’s automobile.

“By way of security, sure, as a result of we tailored the tempo,” Vasseur stated. “It’s not that Lewis was pushing like hell within the final lap, however he was 30 seconds slower.

“By way of security, it was on the protected aspect, however not the goal. The goal is to be protected, however the goal is to not be protected.”

Hamilton: Ferrari not extracting full potential of automobile

Hamilton stated he felt the “ache” for his complete workforce as Ferrari endured one other underwhelming end result with P6 and P8 in Singapore.

“Firstly, the blokes are pushing so onerous every weekend,” Hamilton stated.

“I really feel ache for all of the workforce, from catering to advertising to the engineers, who present up each weekend they usually actually do give completely every little thing.

“However the automobile now we have is simply not sadly on the degree of the blokes up forward, significantly as they’ve had some upgrades and we will’t match them. We’re on the knife edge making an attempt to get as shut as we will.”

Hamilton admitted Ferrari will not be presently extracting the complete potential of their SF-25 challenger.

“In qualifying I believe we’re nonetheless not extracting the complete potential of the automobile. We didn’t within the final race and we didn’t at this race,” he added.

“I believe there was potential for us to have been third or fourth on the grid this weekend, if we had perfected and extracted the tyre efficiency, and never queued on the finish of the pit lane for instance.

“Then the race, we had been on par pace-wise not less than with a few the blokes forward of us however clearly not faster, faster.

“I believe if we will get our qualifying fastened, which may be very, very onerous to do towards these very fast vehicles, then possibly we will get barely higher outcomes.  However in the end we’re nonetheless combating for fourth, fifth, sixth at finest.”