Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting has described Romain Grosjean’s failure to get out of the way of race leader Lewis Hamilton during the Singapore Grand Prix was one of the worst cases he’s seen in F1.
Grosjean was being lapped by the Briton but was embroiled in a close battle with Williams’ Sergey Sirotkin. Grosjean received multiple notifications to let Hamilton past but was intent on getting ahead of Sirotkin before doing so.
Hamilton lost his gap to Max Verstappen behind due to the traffic, and Grosjean was later penalised for the incident. The Frenchman received a 5-second time penalty and is now just three points away from a race ban, after having two penalty points added to his licence.