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Lewis Hamilton has been demoted from third to seventh in the Brazilian Grand Prix over his clash with Alex Albon, with Carlos Sainz Jr inheriting a maiden Formula 1 podium.
Hamilton clashed with Red Bull driver Albon on the penultimate lap of the race in the battle for second place, spinning Albon to the tail of the field and dropping behind Pierre Gasly himself.
Though he was unable to repass Gasly despite a huge effort, Hamilton took the chequered flag in third place and stood on the podium - though he was due to visit the stewards afterwards as the incident remained under investigation.
But the stewards came to a verdict without seeing Hamilton, instead using "video evidence from multiple angles including on-board cameras, broadcast cameras and CCTV".
"Car #23 [Albon] was on his normal race line," the verdict read. "Car #44 [Hamilton] attempted to pass on the inside but was unable to get far enough inside to accomplish the overtake and by the time he realised there would not be sufficient room he was unable to back out of the situation and the collision followed.
"The stewards determined that car #44 [was] predominantly at fault for the collision with #car 23 at Turn 10 [Bico de Pato] and therefore ordered a five-second penalty."
The penalty drops Hamilton, who acknowledged after the race that the clash was "completely my fault", to seventh in the final order.
In addition to Sainz, who inherits his maiden podium and McLaren's first since 2014, Alfa Romeo duo Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi both move up a spot, as does Renault's Daniel Ricciardo to complete the revised top six.
There could yet be further changes to the order, as Autosport understands there have been complaints of illegal DRS use under yellows. This is not yet being formally investigated.
Albon, who ended up finishing 14th, said after the race that he was "upset" but had no hard feelings towards Hamilton.
Asked by Autosport whether Hamilton's apology made it any easier to accept the outcome, he said: "It's alright. Of course he didn't mean to do it. I'm not angry at Lewis.
"I feel like it's one of them things. Of course I wanted the podium and I felt like we deserved it today, but yeah... That's it really. I'm a bit upset [but] it's racing."
Asked for his view of the incident, Albon said: "So, thinking about it or reviewing it back, Turn 9 [Pinheirinho], I saw him in my mirrors, I thought he wasn't close enough to do the overtake so I didn't defend it.
"I went in a little bit quick anyway just to try and cover it. I saw he kind of went for it but it didn't feel at the time like he committed completely.
"It's one of those things when you go side by side like that at that angle, it's completely blind, so you kind of give space, but you don't know really where he is and you just have to turn in and you have to hope there is no one there.
"We tagged, and that was kind of the incident.
"To be honest I thought if he wasn't going to overtake me [there], then he was going to overtake me into Turn 1. He had the pace.
"Of course I think he wanted to get past me quickly to get to Max [Verstappen, race leader] at the end of the race, which I understand."
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