Ferrari Formula 1 driver S🗹ebastian Vettel has accepted responsibility for causing a collision with Max Verstappen during the British🌠 Grand Prix.

The pair collided unde🎀r braking for the Vale chicane moments after Verstappen had passed Vettel for third place at Stowe, with the German misjudging his braking point and slamming into the rear of Verstappen’s Red Bull.

Verstappen was subsequently launched airborne over the sausage kerb at the corner as both drivers ended up in the gravel trap. Vettel was hit with two penalty points on his license and a 10-second time penalty which dropped him to 16th in the classification, while Verstappen w𓄧as remarkably able to salvage fifth.

“Well it was my 🌱mi🅺stake,” Vettel admitted after the race.

“He passed me into Stowe and he ran a bi♔t wide which gave me the chance to come back.

“Then I thought, it looked for a second that he was going to the right and there would be a gap on the left which I wa🎐s ܫhoping to go in for.

“But it didn't open a👍nd by that time it was already too late and I was too cl♔ose and I crashed.”

Speaking about the incident, Verstap⛎pen added: “I guess he misjudged his brakingꦯ in there, so he ran into the back [of me] but I already spoke to him and he already apologised to me immediately out of the car. That said, it’s disappointing but you can’t change it now.

“You know then that the race is lost for a podium. You try then to recover it which was anyway a bit of a surprise after the hit, smashi🃏ng over that sausage ker🐼b.

“The power steering more or les🌄s failed so it was quite a hard work out for me. The seat popped out so it was moving ar﷽ound a lot and the floor was quite badly damaged.

“The diffuser was broken on the side, the floor was broken. Underneath I could see parts falling off so it was not great. The car was not what it should hav💎e been but of course still happy to be fifth.”

Verstappen said he can take encouragement from Red Bul🌳l’s pace and feels he would have been on for a clear podium without the Vettel incident.

“We were clear faster than Ferrari in the race,” he said𝕴.

“Mercedes, I never really had clear ๊laps, and I think Lewis was really quick, but in general I think we could have deꦕfinitely finished second or third today.”

*That* collision

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