Fernando Alonso may have been furious, but Sam Bird says Lewis Hamilton did what every race driver would have done as he stayed on track at the Singapore Grand Prix despite his brakes failing.

Hamilton’s Singapore Grand Prix was a tale of two parts as the Ferrari began to chase down Kimi Antonelli for sixth place after a late pit stop on lap 46 for a set of soft Pirelli tyres.

‘Is that deemed dangerous? Did Lewis Hamilton do the right thing?’

Ferrari cleared Charles Leclerc out of the way and Hamilton went on a charge. Well, he did, until he didn’t.

With just a handful of laps remaining, Hamilton reported to his race engineer Riccardo Adami that he was “losing my brakes”, which was followed a short while later by, “I’ve lost my brakes, lost my left front.”

He then lost second place

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