BREAKING: Lewis Hamilton hit by post-race penalty as Singapore Grand Prix result changes

Lewis Hamilton's nightmare end to the Singapore Grand Prix got even worse when he was slapped with a post-race penalty. He was already lucky to take the chequered flag in seventh place after suffering a brakes failure in the final few laps which meant he crawled to the finish line.

Hamilton was on the soft tyres in a final stint which began with much promise. He had plenty of pace and team-mate Charles Leclerc complied with the Ferrari instruction to move aside and let the seven-time Formula 1 champion pass and try to hunt down Kimi Antonelli ahead.

But as he did overtake the other red car, a huge plume of brake dust could be seen coming from one of the wheels of his Ferrari. And TV angles from cameras mounted on his racing machine also showed there were some sparks from inside the front-left, suggesting the brake disc may have been fully worn.

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And that seemed to be the case as, over the final two laps, he was forced to tiptoe around the track, Leclerc roaring by and zooming off into the distance. Hamilton had run a clean race but, all of a sudden, he was in real danger of not finishing in the top 10 at all.

In the end, he did manage to cross the line still in seventh place, fractionally ahead of Fernando Alonso who had been around 40 seconds adrift of Hamilton until that brakes failure struck. However, he has now been dropped down the finishing order after a post-race investigation led to the stewards handing the Brit a penalty.

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