The triple world champion, who can be 27 subsequent week, had his benefit over McLaren’s Lando Norris lower from 62 factors after the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sept. 1 to 52 because it stands after Singapore.
The season now has a four-week lull earlier than a U.S.-Mexico-Brazil sequence beginning in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 20, adopted by one other last triple-header of Las Vegas-Qatar-Abu Dhabi.