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

Hamilton emerged from Turn 2 unscat🌠hed but Norris, who started one place ahead of the Mercedes driver in third, picked up front-wing damage that forced him to make an unscheduled𝓀 pit stop.

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

And seven-time world cha💞mpion Hamilton felt Norris would have picked up a better result had he been more “pa🌸tient”. 

“I just felt a big hit from behind,” explꦆained Hamilton, who equalled his best result of the season by f📖inishing second. 

“But obviously Max [Verstappen] and Carlos [Sainz] went quite wide and deep into Turn 1, and they were coming back across, and ꩵI 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 am🌠azing job yesterday, it was great to see McLaren up there on the second row.

“I think to🍰day, probably even if he was ahead of me going into the corner, we would’ve overtaken him, because we had slightly mor𒁏e 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 little bit more patient today h☂e would’ve had probably a better result. But we live and we learn.”

Offering his view of the collision, Norris reckoned heꦫ simply got “a bit unlucky”.&nb⛦sp;

ไ“I didn’t see the other car because the Red Bull went off ahead of me,” Norris told Sky. 

“And♎ because 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 time he was pretty𒀰 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 would at Turn 2. Nothing more than that.🙈 It happens. But it didn’t change our 💟day.”