Felipe Massa is adamant that he did nothing wrong in tipping Formula 1 World Championship rival Lewis Hamilton into a spin in the Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji today - despite coming under🐼 fire from many in the sport for his rash move.

Massa was one of those to lose out in the first corner chaos created by Hamilton's ultra-late braking, and the pair of them were lying in sixth and seventh positions respe🥃ctively on lap two when the Brazilian ran wide into tur🌜n ten, opening the door briefly to his British adversary -who didn't need asking twice.

As Massa recovere🌸d, though, he cut across the grass and tagged the rear of the McLaren-Mercedes, knocking Hamilton into a spin and down to the back of the field, for which he would receive a drive-through penalty. An unjust one, he protests.

"It was a racing incident," the 27-year-old is quoted by Planet-F1 as having insisted. "I was♑ a little bit wide at the corner and he put the car inside while I was outside.

"Then he pushed me a little bit close to the gravel, I put two wheels on the gravel and he closed in. I couldn't do anything and we touc🎃🐎hed."

Clearly blaming Hamilton for the collision - one that🧜, allied to a similar drive-through penalty for his first corner indiscretion, torpedoed the Stevenage-born ace's hopes of scoring any points - Massa also suggested that whilst that pun🌺ishment had been fair, the one he received for having been deemed to have caused the second lap incident was not.

"For him yes, for me I🌳 am not sure," the S?o Paulista replied when asked if the penalties were justified. "I had two wheels on the gravel. I could not stop the car and I was on the gravel because he pushed me into the gravel."