Lewis Hamilton feels unwell after the race and is treated by doctors in Singapore: “Today was a painful lesson, but I take full responsibility for the decisions I made”

Lewis Hamilton He did not feel well after competing in the Sunday race of the 2026 F1 Singapore GP, as a Ferrari spokesperson informed the media, and had to be treated by the FIA ​​medical team.

“Hamilton felt unwell after the race and was treated by the FIA ​​medical team, and has been granted permission not to go to the press area after the race,” the team explained to the press after one of the most physically demanding races of the Formula 1 championship, held on the Marina Bay street track.

Subsequently, the same spokesperson for the Italian team sent Hamilton’s statements to the media analyzing his race, in which he finished 6th after losing the podium due to a strategy that he himself asked the team for, but that did not work. He went from the podium to sixth place.

“Today we did not achieve the result we were looking for and it was my fault. On a circuit where it is difficult to overtake, you have to try something different, and I decided to go out with a new medium tire to do a long run. and trying to make the one-stop strategy work. Unfortunately, the medium tire did not perform as well as the soft tire.”commented the British.

“I had a good second stint and got my rhythm back, but I couldn’t make the necessary progress. During the virtual safety car start, the team asked me to enter the pits, but I failed the entry. After that, I decided to stay on the track and try to maintain the position until the end, but in the last laps I suffered a lot with tire wear and lost three placesfinishing sixth, which does not reflect the pace we had today with the car,” he added, taking full blame for his race.

Apologize to Ferrari

“Today has been a painful lesson, but I take full responsibility for the decisions I made. Not all decisions turn out well, and I can accept having been wrong, but I feel sorry for the team for the points we have lost today. They work very hard every weekend and I wanted to give them more in return,” said a Hamilton who already apologized for his decisions to the team in a post-race radio communication.

“I will continue working hard and I will be back at it in the next race,” Hamilton concluded in the aforementioned statement.

For his part, Frédéric Vasseur, Ferrari Team Principal, acknowledged that the strategy was Hamilton’s decision.

“It was totally Lewis’s decision. We told him to go into the pits (with the virtual safety car), but he didn’t do it”he expressed. AND

“It’s a real shame, because I would have finished third. I’m disappointed because we could have had both cars on the podium, but instead we finished sixth. We will talk to him about it, but, in general, they have done a good job,” concluded Vasseur.