“I’m sure we’ll talk when we get to the stewards”– Lewis Hamilton on whether he will talk to Max Verstappen about the collision; blames him for the incident

Tanish Chachra | 12/09/2021
"I'm sure we'll talk when we get to the stewards"– Lewis Hamilton on whether he will talk to Max Verstappen about the collision; blames him for the incident

“I’m sure we’ll talk when we get to the stewards”– Lewis Hamilton holds Max Verstappen responsible for the Italian Grand Prix collision.

The Italian Grand Prix gave a classic anti-climax with a collision between the two drivers contesting for the world title (Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen) during the start of lap 26.

Vying in the turn 1, Verstappen’s car was airborne after hitting on the tyres of Lewis hamilton’s Mercedes, and in the end, both cars got enough damage while going out of the track into the gravel.

Talking about the incident, Hamilton has justified his position in the collision and puts most of the blame onto Verstappen by claiming the Dutchman should have yielded the position.

“I was racing as hard as I could, finally got past Lando, I was in the lead so they pitted me, pit-stop was obviously slow, lost a couple of seconds,” said Hamilton to Sky F1’s Rachel Brookes.

“Came out, saw that Daniel came past, Max was coming, I made sure I let a car’s width on the outside to him. I went into Turn 1 and I was ahead, I was ahead going into Turn 2, then all of a sudden he was on top of me.”

He knew it

Hamilton then asserts his point that Verstappen knew that he was going on the kerb, and an aggressive move would only have turned fatal, and that’s what happened.

“Absolutely. Exactly the same scenario that happened in Turn 4, where I went around the outside, I was in exactly the same position, but I gave way. And that’s racing,” said Hamilton when asked if Verstappen could have backed down.

“He just didn’t want to give way today, he knew when he was going into Turn 2 what was going to happen, he knew he was going over the kerb but still did it. We’ll speak to the stewards and we’ll see.”

Post Edited By: Tanish Chachra
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Tanish Chachra

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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