“We will see more collisions”– Toto Wolff claims F1 can’t rule out more collisions between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton

“We will see more collisions”– Toto Wolff thinks F1 can’t think that collisions between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are over.

During the British Grand Prix, the two leading drivers of the championship– Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton collided, forcing the former to suffer a 51G crash.

Giving a ten-second penalty to Hamilton and causing massive controversy. But Mercedes team principal believes that this is not the end, and we may witness more crashes between the two in future.

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Max Verstappen: “Very disappointed with being taken out like this.”

Lewis Hamilton: “I will not be bullied into being less aggressive.”

Red Bull team principal Horner: “It was dangerous, it looked desperate, he’s put a competitor in hospital.” pic.twitter.com/3slxeheKNG

— The Field (@thefield_in) July 19, 2021

“I think that the intensity has increased since Silverstone. It certainly will not be the last time they fight for position and hopefully they can do it in a sportsmanlike way. And, if not, we will see more collisions,” said Wolff to Motorsport.

Though the duo has been involved in multiple individual battles, this was for the first time when the two had such a dramatic collision, while the competition between them is the most intense ever since Verstappen made his debut.

Lewis Hamilton opted to hold the ground.

Wolff reveals that earlier, Hamilton had hardly ever crashed with Verstappen because the Briton opted to take the long battle, but this time he didn’t want to lose the ground because he wouldn’t have recovered against a faster Red Bull.

“I think part of his [Hamilton’s] success is not only his race craft but also his maturity,” said Wolff. “Long-term strategy is important to win championships because you need to score points.

“It has come to a situation that ceding a track position has been part of the pattern of the last few races. This time neither of them conceded and it ended up in a heavy collision.”

“I think he’s much beyond proving a point,” said Wolff. “He is a 99-time race winner, and seven-time world champion. There is nothing Lewis Hamilton needs to prove to anybody anymore.”

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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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