Lewis Hamilton admits he was left “shocked” by the “hardcore” five-place grid penalty he has been given for weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.

Hamilton says he will “learn from it” and is “very motivated” to make up the ground he will lose on Sunday’s grid on his first Monza weekend as a Ferrari driver.

Hamilton will start Ferrari’s home grand prix no higher than sixth after stewards at Zandvoort ruled he had failed to slow sufficiently for double-waved yellow flags on his reconnaissance laps to last Sunday’s grid.

Although the incident occurred in the 30 minutes before the race started, it was not investigated until after its conclusion once they had spoken to Hamilton. The decision was made to drop him five places on the Monza grid and issue two points on his superlicence, in the hours after a race he had crashed out of.

Speaking about the sanction for the first time on F1’s arrival at Monza on Thursday, Hamilton replied when asked if he was frustrated by the timing of the penalty being issued: “Of course.

“I landed back home and then saw that I had got this penalty and I was really, really shocked, to be honest.

“But it is what it is. It’s obviously not black and white. The fact is if you look at the [stewards’] report, I did lift but to their liking not enough, so that’s why I guess they’re saying not more.

“To get the penalty and get penalty points was pretty hardcore, but I learn from it and there is no point whinging about it, I’ll move forwards.

“It’s going to be challenging this weekend. Qualifying is already so close between us all. So just getting into Q3 is tough, getting in the top five is very, very tough and on top of that to be set back five places is not great when you’re going into your first Monza GP with Ferrari.

“But it gives me more to fight for and I’m very motivated to make up those places, regardless.”

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Sky Sports F1’s Italian GP Schedule

Friday September 5
8.30am: F3 Practice
9.55am: F2 Practice
12pm: Italian Grand Prix Practice One (session starts at 12:30pm)*
1.55pm: F3 Qualifying
2.50pm: F2 Qualifying
3.35pm: Italian Grand Prix Practice Two (session starts at 4pm)
5.15pm: The F1 Show

Saturday September 6
8.10am: F3 Sprint
11.15am: Italian Grand Prix Practice Three (session starts at 11:30am)
1.10pm: F2 Sprint
2.15pm: Italian Grand Prix Qualifying build-up
3pm: ITALIAN GRAND PRIX QUALIFYING*
5pm: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook

Sunday September 7
7.10am: F3 Feature Race
8.40am: F2 Feature Race
10.40am: Porsche Supercup Race
12.30pm: Grand Prix Sunday: Italian GP build-up
2pm: THE ITALIAN GRAND PRIX*
4pm: Chequered Flag: Italian GP reaction
5pm: Ted’s Notebook

*also on Sky Sports Main Event

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