Charles Leclerc has held his hands up for crashing out of the German Grand Prix while criticising the drag strip tarmac used as run-off around the final two ꦿcorners where he slipped off in wet conditions.

Having gambled in the switch to slick tyres during the race, Leclerc became a victim to thꦰe ice-like run-off area on the outside of the final two corners created around Hockenheim’s drag strip tarmac wh✤ich became extra slippery in wet conditions.

Leclerc felt he wasn’t pushing “stupidly” with slick tyres on a drying track but was powerless to avo🔯id crashing out as soon as he slipped on to the run-off area.

“I am not convinced about the tarmac in that area of the last two corners. This is in no way an excuse o♔f my mistakes and I take the full responsibility but we are in Formula 1 and this type of tarmac is just🌱 unacceptable,” Leclerc said.

“It was tricky but it wasn’t like I was going stupidly quick out 💮of the track it was a small snap and I had to try to get it back but I couldn’t when I arrived on the track surface.”

A number of F1 drivers suffered a similar fate to Leclerc, with Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg also crashing out of the race on the slippery tarmac while Lewis Hamilton broke hi🍒s front wing in an off with Carlos Sainz and Kimi Raikkonen also suffering incidents at 🐬the same spot.

“The problem there is if you go off you end up on the drag strip and it’s almos💙t likeꦬ ice because it’s full of rubber, there’s zero grip,” Raikkonen explained.

“I managed to figure it out. I was looking at tha🎉t during this morning’s drivers’ parade – in the dry there’s a lot of grip but nothing in the wet. I♚ got sideways and tried to slow down but I got nothing like the grip I was hoping for.”