Hamilton and Verstappen speak
Hamilton apologised to his rival after the race in the paddock, despite the blunder being outside his control.
Immediately after the incident, a furious Verstappen reacted saying: “F*** who mate, f*** Lewis. Massive impeding that.”
He said: “I saw immediately that the team [Ferrari] told [Lewis Hamilton] that I was driving slow, while I was clearly driving fast. So it’s not Lewis’ fault. I mean, I quickly chatted to Lewis already about it.”
Verstappen later accepted Hamilton was not at fault, but admitted he thought he would still incur a penalty.
“Yeah, it’s very simple, but of course it can’t happen, but that’s the team’s mistake.
“If you look at the history of things, yes [expect a penalty], but again, you know, it’s more a team’s fault, but unfortunately, in qualifying, of course, they normally are quite strict on these things.”