P1racenews AI automatic summary:
Lewis Hamilton suffered a frustrating sprint qualifying in São Paulo, and it has just become even worse.
After being investigated by the F1 stewards following sprint qualifying at the Brazilian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton managed to avoid a grid penalty. The seven-time world champion came under scrutiny during SQ2, where he couldn’t improve his position due to a timing issue, landing him in 11th place. While in jeopardy of penalty, Hamilton had a close encounter with his team-mate Leclerc, who spun ahead of him. Despite this incident, the stewards opted to only delete Hamilton’s lap time, issue him a reprimand – his first of the season – and leave his starting position unchanged. Consequently, Leclerc is set to begin the race from eighth place.
