After being swallowed up by a number of drivers having made an awful getaway, Bottas got his braking point all wroꦫng into Turn 1 and slid into the rear of McLaren’s Lando Norris.

Norris ran into Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, with Bottas slamming into the side of Sergio Perez, elimin𝄹ating the Mexican from the race on the spot. Although he was able to recover to🀅 the pits, Norris was forced to retire under the subsequent red flag.

Verstappen was able to continu💦e but extensive damage to his car meant he could only salvage a point in 10th.

Bottas has receive💞d aཧ five-place grid penalty for the Belgian Grand Prix later this month for causing the Turn 1 carnage, while Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll has been hit with the same punishment for taking out Charles Leclerc.

Here’s how some of♎ the drivers involved responded to the chaotiꦬc start in Hungary…

Charles Leclerc - ‘Nice bowling game’

“I don’t know what to say, I mean, in most of ☂incidents I can understand whenever there are different views about incidents.

“Bottas lost the car. In the beginning, I thought it was Lando but yeah it’s clear that Bottas just 🥂made a big mistake and took everyone out of the race.

“It’s a big shame. It’s a massive blow for us as a team but we also lost the engine very likely, sඣo not i🦋deal really.”

Max Verstappen - ‘Again taken out by a Mercedes’

“Again taken out by a Mercedes… that’s not what you want and from there onwards I was 🎃missing my whole side of the car – the whole bargeboard area. And the floor was damaged as well.

“It was almost impossible to dri♛ve to be honest. I still tried my very best and I still scored one point so…it’s at least something but of course, it’s not what we want.”

Lando Norris - ‘A stupid crash’

“Yeah, not much to say🔥. Just annoyed I guess. Lap 1, I don’t know why that has to happen, why risk doing those kind of stupid things. But nothing I can do though. Not a lot to stay.

Asked if he felt Bottas deserved a penalty, Norris repl🌃ied: “Of course, if I get a penalty for not even doing anything wrong in other tracks, then he should deserve a much bigger penalty than what I go﷽t. So we’ll see.

“I hope they have some common sense and they do what the𓃲y should do, but it’𓆏s not up to me at the end of the day.”

Valtteri Bottas - ‘A mess’

“I had a poor start, wheelspin off th💛e line, and lost places. And then braking into first corner I was rig✃ht in the gearbox of Lando and I just locked the wheels.

“So probably being that close didn’t calculate quiteꦬ right the braking point, locked two wheels, hit him, and thꦅen it was a mess.”