Why is Hamilton getting so many penalties? - F1 Q&A

Image source, Reuters Image caption, Lewis Hamilton was given a five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane during the Hungarian Grand Prix Published 6 minutes ago McLaren's Lando Norris won the Hungarian Grand Prix from pole position, his first victory since becoming world champion. Red Bull's Max Verstappen was second and Mercedes' championship leader Kimi Antonelli completed the podium in third. Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton was given a five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane and finished fifth behind his team-mate Charles Leclerc. F1 will now go on a summer break and return for the Dutch Grand Prix, from 21-23 August. BBC Sport F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your latest questions after the race at the Hungaroring. Why is Lewis Hamilton getting so many penalties at the moment? With his vast experience, you would have thought that at least some of them could have been avoided - John To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Ferrari must 'do better' after errors in Hungary Lewis Hamilton has had four penalties in the past three grands prix, which does seem a lot for a seven-time world champion. But just because events happen in a statistical cluster does not necessarily mean there is any kind of wider pattern behind them. In this case, it does just seem as if it's one of those things - a series of events that can happen at any time, and just happen to have happened when they did. The penalties are all very different. At Silverstone, Hamilton was penalised for moving before the start, after his car jumped forward briefly and then stopped before the lights went out. At Spa, he was given a five-second penalty for causing a collision with George Russell at Les Combes on the first lap. And in Hungary, there was a three-place grid drop for impeding Oscar Piastri in qualifying, and a five-second penalty in the race for going 0.1km/h over the pit-lane speed limit while racing Kimi Antonelli out of the pits when both stopped under the late virtual safety car. Hamilton said on Sunday after the race: "Ultimately, the last three races have been pretty bad from my side. "Silverstone start - we talked in the drivers' briefing the fact that they're inconsistent with this stuff. Drivers in the past have moved and not been penalised. "We discussed that, as long as you're not moving when the last lights are on, you shouldn't be penalised. I wasn't out of my [start] box. And they agreed. So they're looking into that for the future. "The last race, even the driver I collided with said that it was just a racing incident. I think that one was not needed. But that cost me a lot of points. "And then the one yesterday was really just unfortunate. I take responsibility for ultimately being on track. I should have looked in my mirrors. But I thought everyone would have been at the end of the first lap. The information I got was right at the end. A communication error. "I'll work hard to