{"id":5416,"date":"2018-07-22T21:57:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T01:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2018-07-22T21:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T01:57:24","slug":"hamilton-reprimanded-but-keeps-his-epic-win-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/07\/22\/hamilton-reprimanded-but-keeps-his-epic-win-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Reprimanded But Keeps His Epic Win In Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lewis Hamilton<\/strong> clinched his 66th career victory in Formula 1 this Sunday in Hockenheim at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/07\/22\/lewis-hamilton-wins-german-gp-after-chaotic-safety-car-period\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>German GP<\/strong><\/a>. While the English driver&#8217;s performance was stunning, his win was at risk after the stewards took issue with his pit-lane entry mistake.<\/p>\n<h1>Hamilton Reprimanded But Keeps His Epic Win In Germany<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Sebastian Vettel<\/strong> crashed and brought out the Safety Car while in the lead on lap 52. <strong>Mercedes<\/strong> called\u00a0<strong>Valtteri Bottas<\/strong> and Hamilton in. Bottas entered the pits, but Hamilton&#8217;s engineer, Peter Bonnington, told him to stay out. The Englishman cut the pit entry and went back to the track, a move which gave him track position and eventually the win. Also, that move was a violation of the FIA\u2019s International Sporting Code.<\/p>\n<p>After the race, the stewards called the race winner to hear his side of the story. As Mercedes took total responsibility for the incident, Hamilton got off without a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official Formula 1 site, the stewards considered three factors in the issue. <em>&#8220;The team candidly admitted the mistake and the fact that there was confusion within the team about whether to pit or not. The infringement took place during a Safety Car period. And that there was no danger to any other competitor and the change in direction occurred\u00a0safely.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hamilton said that he felt it was his &#8220;chance to do the opposite&#8221; and take the lead from\u00a0the pitting Ferrari of <strong>Kimi Raikkonen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman now leads the World Drivers&#8217; Championship with a 17-point gap over Ferrari&#8217;s Sebastian Vettel, who crashed out of his home race after leading most of the way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAIN PHOTO:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a id=\"vW-4ZNPVQkZxcABfYXuteQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.in\/detail\/1003848328\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'vW-4ZNPVQkZxcABfYXuteQ',sig:'6CEW9nWaViadjlDPWLVMSs7lwKcuJ7opHanXSotWK-k=',w:'594px',h:'382px',items:'1003848328',caption: true ,tld:'in',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton clinched his 66th career victory in Formula 1 this Sunday in Hockenheim at the German GP. While the English driver&#8217;s performance was stunning, his win was at risk after the stewards took issue with his pit-lane entry mistake. Hamilton Reprimanded But Keeps His Epic Win In Germany Sebastian Vettel crashed and brought out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2449,"featured_media":5426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[424,84,974,76,121,117],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-news","tag-2018-formula-one-season","tag-ferrari","tag-hockenheim","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-mercedes","tag-sebastian-vettel"],"modified_by":"Sudha Sundar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}