The Haas driver clash🐻ed with Lewis Hamilton on the opening lap of Sunday’s race as they battled over fourth place. The conta🅷ct caused damage to Magnussen’s front wing and he was instructed to pit for repairs shortly afterwards. 

A black-and-orange flag is sh🅺own to a driver when their car ha♑s been summoned to the pits due to a serious mechanical problem or loose bodywork that presents a risk to other competitors. 

Esteban Ocon, wh☂o was running behind Magnussen at the time, radioed in to his Alpine team to raise safety concerns about the damaged Haas, knowing it would🦂 draw the attention of race control. 

Magnus🎀sen is carrying damage to his front🎃 wing after an opening lap skirmish with Hamilton

— Formula 1 (@F1)

Following the race, Magnussen revealed Ocon had jok🅰ed he intentionally made out that the damage was bad in an attempt to get the Dane in trouble. 

"I was talking to🃏 Ocon now and he was just joking how he told the FIA that it was really bad," said Magnussen.&♉nbsp;

"If you know you can influence the FIA like that, you're going to do it, aren't you? Whic🐟h is what he did. Fa♛ir play.

"But you've gotta let us drive with that s***🌳, it's nothing. I was keeping up, the car was fine. The front wing was sa🏅fe, it was not broken off.

"Think 𒈔back to Jeddah last y🐬ear, Lewis Hamilton won the race without half a front wing... which I think is correct, you know. Let us race if we can.”

Asked if he would ꦜtalk to the FIA about the incident, Magnussen replied: "I don’t know. Fe𝄹els suddenly very different. 

“I🔯n Monaco they don’t start us because it starts drizzling. Here I’m called in because I have a scratch on my front wing.” 

Nightmare race for Haas 

The race started with♛ much promise but ultimately ended in disappointment after both Magnussen and teammate Mick Schumacher failed to sꦓcore a single point between them.

Magnussen and Sc🌄humacher had lined up from fifth and sixth after the team equalled their best-ever qualifying performance by locking out the third row of the g🙈rid in wet conditions on Saturday. 

But the American outfit came away with zero points after Magnussen dropped 💎out of the top 10 following his forced pit stop and was unable to recover✃. 

Mean𝓡while, Schumacher’s wait for his first-ever F1 points finish continues after the German retꦫired on Lap 19 with a power unit issue. 

“N🅠ot what we wanted today,” said Haas team principal Guenther Steiner. “Kevin’s race was ov꧃er when he had to change front wing. 

“Mick was fighting really hard and was getting into the groove but something on the PU let go and that w🍷as his day done. 

“Obviousl꧃y, when you’re dead last it’s j🃏ust very hard to recover, so we ended up where we ended up.”