Lammers would like to see self-reflection with Hamilton and Mercedes

Lewis Hamilton saw victory in the Russian Grand Prix pass him by due to a five-second double-time penalty on Sunday. He got this because he had made two practice starts in the wrong place. The question for Jan Lammers is whether that penalty is fair.

"Of course that's fair, because that's just the way it goes," he said on the NOS Formula 1 podcast. "He is the first to know. If you have already raced for couple of hundred million and you drive for an organisation like Mercedes, then he and the team must accept that in a self reflective way."

The FIA's regulations are set out in a very extensive booklet, which gets a little thicker almost every season. You could be forgiven if you did not know it by heart, but in the case of Hamilton and Mercedes, that excuse is not valid for Lammers.