Why Lewis Hamilton’s pre-race offence at Zandvoort earned a penalty in Monza

There’s nothing unusual in drivers messing up the pre-race routine and getting punished for that. Lewis Hamilton himself picked up two penalties at Sochi in 2020 for misinterpreting then-race director Michael Masi’s instructions on practice starts, performing them in a place that the stewards deemed inappropriate – and therefore had to serve two five-second penalties during the ...Keep reading