Lewis Hamilton said he felt “hurt and frustration” and had apologized taking after his accident with Nico Rosberg however did not acknowledge fault.
The two Mercedes drivers crashed on the main lap of the Spanish Grand Prix, with both resigning from the race. Lewis Hamilton said, “I apologized to the team,” Lewis Hamilton said. “To not deliver… whenever it happens, it is a painful experience.
He added, “I saw a gap and went for it. I was a significant portion alongside and I had to avoid a collision.”
Rosberg said, “I saw Lewis closing in so as soon as I could I closed the door to the inside with a clear, strong move to make sure he understands there is not going to be space there, and I was very surprised that he went for it anyway. That’s it. Then we were in the sand trap.” The occurrence implies Hamilton remains 43 points behind Rosberg in the World Championship with 400 accessible over the remaining 16 races.
Hamilton had begun from shaft however was gone around the outside by Rosberg on Turn One. Be that as it may, the German then lost force through Turn Three as an aftereffect of being in the wrong engine mode and Hamilton shut in at a pace contrast of 17km/h.
Hamilton plunged for within on the raced to Turn Four however Rosberg shielded by coming right over the track. Hamilton took to the grass, where he lost control, and spun into his team-mate, taking both out.
F1 decides direct that if a driver moves to safeguard his position he should leave a car’s width if the assaulting driver has a “critical” some portion of his car close by any part of the car in front. Hamilton said: “Today we lost 43 points and there is only two of us part of doing that.
“The apology is that on my behalf I didn’t score those points for the team. These things happen but it is the right thing to apologize just like when the engine fails they say sorry to me.” Toto Wolff said: “I think he said he understood it was difficult for the team.”
He added: “It is clearly not that each of them feels he is entirely faultless.”
