FILE PHOTO: Formula One - Japanese Grand Prix - Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka, Japan - October 6, 2018. Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel during practice. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel will have a three-place grid penalty at Sunday's U.S. Grand Prix, dealing a blow to his hopes of preventing Lewis Hamilton winning a fifth Formula One world championship.
Race stewards decided on the drop after Vettel had failed to slow sufficiently while red warning flags were waved in Friday's wet practice.
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