will miss the primary apply session this weekend in Mexico along with his 2025 substitute filling in.
Seven-time world champion Hamilton will go away Mercedes on the finish of the season, in 2025.
Hamilton shall be changed by 18-year-old Italian star Kimi Antonelli, who on his F1 race weekend debut final month in Monza.
But Antonelli shall be given one other probability within the Mercedes cockpit – this time deputising for Hamilton as an alternative of George Russell – this weekend in Mexico Metropolis.
F1 guidelines state that groups should give two apply alternatives all through the season to rookie drivers, one in every automotive.
Hamilton endured a weekend to overlook on the US Grand Prix in Austin, qualifying and on lap two.
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, nevertheless, insisted Hamilton’s spin into the gravel was not a driver error.
Requested by Sky Sports activities F1 for his tackle the crash, Wolff mentioned: “100% automotive. I believe he was not even pushing at that stage.
“We’ve seen it [in qualifying] with George, and that was possibly over pushing it, however nonetheless abrupt[ly] dropping it, placing it within the wall. At this time, such a scenario, there was wind and there was somewhat little bit of soiled air.
“We have now undoubtedly [got] a problem. I don’t know whether or not it was yesterday the identical as right now. Undoubtedly Lewis Hamilton doesn’t lose the automotive like this.”
Hamilton is with 5 races to go. He’s a two-time winner on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
