Spanner in works for Hamilton

LEWIS HAMILTON will find out tomorrow whether his bid to win the world championship will suffer a serious blow after it was confirmed the McLaren driver is under investigation for his role in the crash that forced Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel out of the Japanese Grand Prix.

Third-placed Vettel drove his Toro Rosso into the back of Webber’s Red Bull, which was running second behind Hamilton, on lap 45 of the 67-lap race when the field was lined up behind a safety car deployed due to Fernando Alonso’s crash three laps earlier.

Although the incident was missed by the television cameras, it is believed new evidence, thought to be footage on YouTube filmed from the grandstand at the Fuji Speedway, shows Hamilton pulling over to the right-hand side of the track and decelerating considerably prior to the collision, in turn forcing Webber to slow down and thus catching Vettel unawares.