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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Safety Car.
Hamilton fumed via his teꦺam radio: “That was no racing incident, mate!”
Verstappen said to his team: "He didn't give me space. Where did they expect me to go? He jusꦑt closed the door. But it doesn't matter."
Sky's Martin Brundle said: "I think Max earned the right to a little mor꧒e space."
Verstappen needed to pit for a new fr🅰ont wing, comi꧅ng off worse after the clash.
Hamilton was second, Verstappen third, at the time of contact behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell. But they both dropped down the order a🦩s a result.
Verstappen was given a꧋ five-second tiꦕme penalty for the incident.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kevin Magnussen had already crashed out in the earl𒁏y 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 doing? Are we racing? Or sec🔜uring the one-two."
The rep🔯ly was: "You are racing. ♛Just be respectful."
Russell eventually 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 cover𝓰ing everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
