Frustrated Lewis Hamilton is handed a three-place grid penalty in another blow to Ferrari star after he had pole position snatched away by British rival Lando Norris

A big cheer and then Lewis Hamilton was left shaking his head. From a likely pole one moment to demotion down the grid a couple of hours later, his world championship hopes rocked in Hungary.

However, not as badly so as first appeared as the stewards intervened and shuffled the pack again long after qualifying had ended.

The first jab to Hamilton was Lando Norris snatching the front spot from him with a late and skilled ambush. The second punch was administered in the stewards’ room, where Hamilton was inevitably penalised for inadvertently impeding McLaren’s Oscar Piastri.

Hamilton was relegated from second on

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