Formula 1’s governing body is reassessing a penalty Lewis Hamilton received at the Qatar Grand Prix for crossing the track without permission. “The FIA is revisiting the incident in which Lewis Hamilton crossed a live track during the Qatar Grand Prix,” said a FIA spokesperson. It added that at the time Hamilton “acknowledged that the crossing was a serious safety breach”. The stewards’ report into the incident on 8 October stated: “The driver of car 44 (Hamilton) abandoned his car in the gravel and ran back to the pits. The stewards’ added that Hamilton had been “very apologetic and realised that the situation could have been very dangerous for him as well as the drivers approaching. “The stewards reinforced the fact that crossing a live track can cause extremely dangerous situations and the drivers have to be very cautious about it.”.

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