The latest controver🙈sial f🤪lashpoint between the championship contenders occurred as Hamilton and Verstappen battled for the lead in Brazil shortly after the final round of pit stops. 

Hamilton launche🥂d an attack around the outside of Verstappen at Turn 4, and was marginally ahead going into Descida do Lago, b🌺efore the Red Bull driver ran both of them off the track. 

The incid🅠ent was noted by the stewards but wasဣ not investigated further. 

Hamilton eventually found a way past Verstappen to complete a🅰 sensational comeback 🅰victory after starting 10th on the grid. 

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said it was168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: “laughable” that Vers♛tappen𒀰 was not handed at least a five-second time penalty, but Horner disagreed. 

“It is two guys running hard,” Horner told Sky Sports. “Lewis has go✱t a run around the outside, Max has gone in deep and they have both gone wide. 

“So it would have been really unfair to penalise on 🀅that.

“If it was the other way around, I would have let my sporting director have a moan ab꧙out it but I wouldn’t have ex🔴pected anything from it.”

Horner was adamant there was no lasting advantage to be gained by Vers🥀tappen running both drivers out wide, despite the fact the Dutchman was able to retain the lead. 

“A penalty for what?” Horner said. “There i🌳s no advantage gained and no contact that has been made. 

“It is just hard racing between the two of them. I think ♑actually the stewards made the right decisio༒n on that. 

"We have talked about this many, many times ab꧟out the let them race mentality, and I think they made the right call today.”

And Hꦇorner 🎃reckons hard racing should be expected from two drivers battling it out for the world championship in the closing stages of the season. 

“You know with🐠 Max, he is going to ra💫ce hard and Lewis is exactly the same,” he added. 

“That is two guys fighting for a world championship so it is going to be tough racing. But I think it was 🐼fair and there was no contact and they recommenced it a few lℱaps later.”