Russell Loses Belgian Gp Win Over Car Weight, Hamilton New Winner

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Mercedes driver George Russell has been disqualified and lost his Belgium Grand Prix win on Sunday, after his car was found to be underweight, and his teammate Lewis Hamilton is promoted to first place.

Initially the car had been found to be compliant but the technical delegates report said that the car had not been fully drained of fuel.

The car was weighed again on the FIA inside and outside scales with both showing the same result of 796.5 kilograms, 1.5 kilograms below the minimum weight required and all other drivers move up one place in the classification.

During the hearing the team representatives confirmed that the measurement is correct and that all required procedures were performed correctly, the governing FIA said in their release.

The team also acknowledged that there were no mitigating circumstances and that it was a genuine error by the team.