“I can’t see how Lewis can take any satisfaction”– Christian Horner claims Lewis Hamilton could have crashed into Charles Leclerc too

“I can’t see how Lewis can take any satisfaction”– Christian Horner accuses Lewis Hamilton of risking Charles Leclerc’s into an accident.

After Sunday, Red Bull’s primary target is Lewis Hamilton, and Christian Horner is trying his best to project the alleged faults of the Briton in front of the media.

Now, he used Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc argument while citing his battle with Hamilton, and the Monegasque had to go wide while the seven-time world champion overtook him.

🎥 #Hamilton overtakes #LeClerc before our very eyes 🇬🇧#BritishGP 🐐📲 pic.twitter.com/mCZf4uxxJ8

— Toby Osborne (@TobyOsborne1) July 18, 2021

According to Horner, that was also a reckless driving by Hamilton, where he also risked crashing into Leclerc, similar to the collision with Verstappen.

“I can’t see how Lewis can take any satisfaction out of a win when you have put your fellow competitor and driver in hospital,” Horner told RacingNews365.com. “It’s disappointing, and it’s extremely annoying.

“He was lucky enough to not have the same accident with Leclerc. If Leclerc had not gone wide and tried to take the line he tried to, exactly the same incident would have prevailed.”

Is Lewis Hamilton frustrated with the sprint race result?

Max Verstappen is the first driver to collect a point from a race despite not finishing even a lap, courtesy to his win in the first-ever sprint race in F1, giving him three points, and Horner thinks that the defeat on Saturday overly motivated Hamilton.

“I think he knew exactly that,” said Horner. “I think he would wound up after Saturday’s result. You could see that on Saturday. I think that that the atmosphere, the crowd and everything he was obviously fully motivated.

“He just made a massive misjudgement. He got a penalty for it, but it’s fairly meaningless, and that was his only opportunity. Had Max come through that corner he might not have seen him again for the rest of the afternoon.”

“For me, it was a desperate move that thankfully didn’t have worse consequences than a written-off car and a bruised and battered driver,” he concluded.

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Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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