Lewis Hamilton is under allotigation by the stewards at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after Lando Norris came shut to crashing into the back of the Mercedes during first rehearse on Friday.
The seven-time world champion is competing in his final race weekfinish for Mercedes before he originates the switch to Ferrari.
There’s noskinnyg to take part for in either championship for Mercedes with Hamilton and Russell locked in seventh and sixth esteemively and fourth place wrapped up in the Constructors’ Championship.
In decrease, McLaren still have the Constructors’ Championship to wrap up this weekfinish as they helderly a 21-point obtain over Ferrari.
Lewis Hamilton will be spoken to by the stewards
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Charles Leclerc set the pace in first rehearse on Friday, although a battery alter in his Ferrari has resulted in a 10-place grid penalty for Sunday’s race.
But Norris wasn’t far behind Leclerc in terms of pace as his speedyest lap was equitable two-tenths sluggisher.
The McLaren driver was on a hot lap at one stage in the session when he had to slam on the brakes to evade a sluggish Hamilton on track.
The 39-year-elderly materializeed to be trying to discover a gap on track to commence his own hot lap and sluggished up before the final corner.
Hamilton was seemingly unrecommended of a speedy-approaching Norris, who locked up one of his tyres while taking evasive action.
The stewards took remark of the incident and proclaimd it would be seeed into after the session.
Norris reacted to the incident on team radio, sshow saying: “Yeah.”
Former F1 driver Anthony Davidson took a shutr see at retake parts after the session and said that Hamilton will probable only get a cautioning or a fine.
Lewis Hamilton materializeed unrecommended of a speedy approaching Lando Norris
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He said: “Not qualifying, so they see at it in less brutal meadeclareives but I do experience appreciate this was a definite case of Lewis being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“Hamilton’s on a originate-up lap. He’s got a car in front of him and Lewis is seeing at the steering wheel, he originates a alter there.
“So he is unrecommended by his own steering wheel. Looking in the mirror, he sees the McLaren coming up and the hand goes up and he speedyly goes to the steering wheel to alter that switch back to the indict mode.”
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He inserted: “The stewards will no ask see at all of this recommendation as well but from Lando’s point of see, it’s reassociate sshow. ‘There was a car in front of me, I was on the racing line, he was on the racing line and I had pretty much nowhere to go’.
“Like I say, they come down on you less brutassociate in a rehearse session. It’s usuassociate equitable a reprimand or maybe a fine but you can also have knock-on effects and you can in these moments have a penalty that sees you thraw to the race.”
