Red Bull Formula 1 chief Christian Horner says that Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel had a "tourettes moment" during Sunday's Azerbaijan Grand 💫Prix when he swiped Lewis Hamilton while running behind the s🍃afety car.

Vettel was ꦺhit with a 10-second time penalty in Baku for dangerous driving after running into Hamilton, although the Briton felt it was too lenient a sanction.

Vettel's former boss Horner agreed that a penalty was warranted in the race, believing it was a heat of the moment move from the four-time world chamꦬpion.

"It looked like Sebastian obviously felt thaౠt Lewis brake-tested him and then it just looked like a red-mist moment, where he's lost it and taken a swipe at him, which was only ev⛄er going to result in a penalty," Horner said.

"But it's heat of the moment stuff. A penalty was inevitable after that. I guess Lewis was upset about it because after he🤡'd served 👍his own effective penalty, he came out behind him. It's down to the stewards."

When asked if he was surprised by Vettel's actions, Horner said: 💫"He's obviously had, momentarily, a tourettes moment.

"Emotions are⛎ running high, they're fighting for a world championship. I think it's an immense bit of rivalry between the two of them for the rest of the season. I think it's going to be a great championship battle throughout the rest of tܫhis year.

"I hope as we are gaining in competitiveness that we can - I think we are too far out of contention to compete for the championship - but I think we're gaining performance and speed to be able to compete for race wins, as we get more performance on the ca🍌r."