F1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton blamed Max Verstappen for their clash
The Mercedes and Red Bull drivers made dramatic contact at Turn 1 shortly after the race resumed after a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Safety Car.
Ha♛milton fumed via his team radio: “That was no racing incident, mate!”
Versta♓ppen said to his team: "He didn't give me space. Where did they expect me to go? He just closed the door. But it doesn't matter."
Sk𓄧y's Martin Brundle said: "I think Max eꦜarned the right to a little more space."
Verstappen needed to pit for a newಌ fron💜t wing, coming off worse after the clash.
Hamilton was second, Verstappen third, at the time of contact behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell. But they both 🤡dropped down the order as a result.
Verstappen was given a five-second time p♚enalty for the incident.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kevin Magnussen had alre꧃ady crashed out in the earl🍌y exchanges, causing the Safety Car.
Mercedes teammates told to race each other
Russell asked via his team radio, while he was ahead of Hamilton: "What are we d🐲oing? Are we racing? Or securing the one-two."
The replඣy was: "You are racing. Just be res𝐆pectful."
Russell e🧜ventually held off Hamilton to win the race, and lead a Mercedes 1-2. It was the team's first victory of 2022.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade c♕overing everything from American sports, to🍌 football, to F1.
