Red Bull Formula 1 chief 🐻Christian Horner says that Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel had a "tourettes moment" during Sunday's Azerbaijan Grand Prix when he swiped Lewis Hamilton while running behind the safety car.

Vettel was hit with a 10-second time penalty in Baku for dangerous driving after running into Hamilton, although the Briton f♊elt it was too lenient a sanction.

Vettel's former boss Horner agreed that a penalty was warranted i𒐪n the race, believing it was a♏ heat of the moment move from the four-time world champion.

"It looked like Sebastian obviously felt that Lewis brake-tested him and then it just looked like a red-mist moment, where he's lost it and taken a swipe at him, which was only ever going to result in a pe🌟nalty," Horner said.

"But it's heat of the moment stuff. A penalty was i🐻nevitable after that. I guess Lewis was upset about it because after he'd served his own effective penalty, he came out behind him. It's down to the stewards."

When asked if 🐼he was surprised by Vettel's actions, Horne🔯r said: "He's obviously had, momentarily, a tourettes moment.

"Emotions are running high, they're fighting for🧔 a world championship. I think it's an immense bit of rivalry between the two of them for the rest of the season. I think 🐻it's going to be a great championship battle throughout the rest of this year.

"I hope as we are gaining in competitiveness that we can - I think we are too far out of contention to compete for the championship - but I think we're gaining performance and speed to be able to compete for race wins, as we get more performance on▨ the car."