Hamilton's Singapore GP turned into a self-inflicted disaster. Running third under the VSC, Ferrari called both cars to pit. Hamilton waved it off—first claiming he missed the entry, then deciding to stay out on degrading softs. The gamble collapsed. Over the final 22 laps, he bled 2.5 seconds per lap to teammate Leclerc, tumbling from third to sixth as both McLarens and Kimi Antonelli swept past.
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur called it bluntly: "clearly a mistake." But he defended the driver autonomy, noting teams constantly preach trusting cockpit feedback. Hamilton owned it in a statement afterward, calling it "a painful lesson" and apologizing for the lost points. The miscalculation started earlier—he'd gambled on new mediums at the start, hunting a one-stop that never materialized.
The unforced error costs Ferrari in a constructors' fight where margin for error doesn't exist.
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