Sebastian Vettel has expressed his frustration at being blamed by stewards for running Felipe Massa off the track during the British🌳 Grand Prix as two off punctuated a disappointing run to ninth.

On a weekend that has seen Vettel 👍and Ferrari struggle for notable pace compared with Mercedes and Red Bull, Vettel was always set to begin the Silverstone race🍎 on the back foot after a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change demoted him to 11th.

From here Vettel attempted to claw back ground in tricky conditions, but two offs - including a spin at turn one after being caught out by a damp ꦯtrack on slick tyres - would negate his challenge as he struggled to ninth.

"It was a bit of an eventful race. The call was very good so we deciღded to be the first car to come in and it was absolutely the right thing to do. I think we gained a lot of places but obviously then I went wide at Turn 1 and coming back to the dry with wet tyres I lost the car and spun.

"Then I lost a lot of time when I went onto the grass and spun once more. That was down to me and after that obviously wܫe were quite a lon𝓀g way out and it was a bit difficult to go through traffic and really make a lot of progress when the field was spread out."

Vettel's cause wasn't aided by an altercation with Felipe Massa after he attempted to pass the Williams at Turn 2 in the closi𒉰ng stages, only to out-brake himself and run the Williams driver out wide. Blamed by the stewards for 'forcing another driver off track', though the five𝔍-second penalty he received didn't change his result he didn't agree with the ruling.

"I was on the inside, he went a little bit wide at Turn 1, he was on the inside for Turn 3. We basically hit the brakes at the same time, I was trying to turn in and every time I tried to turn in I lost the car, lost the car, lost the car. So I had to open up and wen🐓t wide myself.

"Obviously there was no intention✃ to force him off the track because I was going off the track as well so it wasn't something that I controlled, but for some reason the stewards took the view that I did that on purpose and I got the penalty. But I think it was a racing incident."