The British duo made contact as they diced for position while making their way through Barcelona’s opening sequence of coജrners at the start of Sunday’s race.

Hamilton emerged from Turn 2 unsc🌳athed but Norris, who started one place ahead of the Mercedes drඣiver in third, picked up front-wing damage that forced him to make an unscheduled pit stop.

The incident ef🎀fectively 💦ruined Norris’ race, with the McLaren driver going on to finish a lowly 17th. 

A🌱nd seven-time world champion Hamilton felt Norris w﷽ould have picked up a better result had he been more “patient”. 

“I just felt a big hit from behi🏅nd,” explained Hamilton, who equalled his best result of the sea🎀son by finishing second. 

“But obviously Max [Verstappen] and Carlos [Sainz] went quite wide and deep into Turn 1, and ജthey were coming back 🌜across, and I basically got in the wake so I had to be patient and then I got a hit from behind.

“I think it was a shame for Lando because he did such an amazing job yꦫesterday, it was great to see McLaren up there on the second row.

“I think today, probably even if 🐓he was ahead of me going into the corner, we wouꦕld’ve overtaken him, because we had slightly more pace, I would say, probably race-trim-wise.

“So it ended up not being a great result for him. But I think if he was just a littl꧋e bit more patient today he would’ve had prob💦ably a better result. But we live and we learn.”

Offering his view of th𒁏e collision, Norris reckoned he simply got “a bit unlucky”. 

“I did🌠n’t see the other car because the Red Bull went off ahead of m♔e,” Norris told Sky. 

“And becau🥀se of that I thought there would be normal pace around Turn 2 – and everyone checked up massively.

“Just a misjudgement from my part.

“Maybe I could’ve fought Lewis more around Turn 1 but at the same t🅘ime he was pretty committed and I probably would’ve ended up off the track. Maybe it would’ve been a safer option just to commit to going off.

“But I think it was just a bit unlucky. There was a little bit of a gap on the inside, and all of a sudden you hit the brakes harder than you ever ඣwould at Turn 2. Nothing more than that. It happens. But it didn’t change our day.”