Lewis Hamilton faces five-place penalty in Brazil after engine change

Lewis Hamilton will have a five-place grid penalty at Sunday's Sao Paulo Grand Prix after his Mercedes team decided to fit a new engine to his car.

Mercedes has struggled with engine issues all year and Hamilton has now used five for the season, which is two over the quota of three allowed in the regulations.

When he first exceeded his engine quota at the Turkish Grand Prix with his fourth engine of the year he received a ten-place penalty, but because he has already broken the quota, his fifth engine only equates to a five-place penalty.

The engine quota is in the regulations to stop teams spending excessive amounts of money on fitting new engines every race weekend.

The engine change is bad…