German Grand Prix victor Lewis Hamilton has been summoned to the stewards over his aborted pit stop during the Safety Car period.
Hamilton recovered from 14th place to triumph in a dramatic German Grand Prix that was affected by showers, with title rival Sebastian Vettel crashing out.
Vettel’s stricken car required a Safety Car period, under which Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas, running ahead on track, was called into the pits.
Hamilton ducked to the pit entry lane but eventually ran across the grass and stayed on track, amid a sequence of conflicting messages from his Mercedes team.
Hamilton inherited the lead when Kimi Raikkonen also stopped and subsequently kept Bottas at bay to triumph.
But he and Mercedes have received a summons after an “alleged breach of Appendix L Chapter IV Article 4c of the FIA’s International Sporting Code.”
“Except in cases of force majeure (accepted as such by the stewards), the crossing, in any direction, of the line separating the pit entry and the track by a car entering the pit lane is prohibited,” reads the appendix.
