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Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes accepted that the accident involving Kimi Räikkönen at the British Grand Prix was a racing incident and retracted suggestions that Ferrari had intentionally targeted their cars. Hamilton called his comments "stupid".
Hamilton was hooked by Kimi Räikkönen's Ferrari in the first round of Sunday's race. The Mercedes driver was sent in rotation and recovered well from the back of the pack to finish second. The race was won by Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel, who leads Hamilton to eight points in the world championship.
Two weeks ago, Vettel hit Valtteri Bottas's Mercedes, inflicting damage that prevented him from running. had described the Silvertone incident as "interesting tactics on their part", adding that "it is now two races that the Ferrari have made out of the Mercedes".
He has now accepted that his comments were not fair. In a post on Instagram, he wrote: "Kimi said sorry and I accept it and we move on to something else.It was a racing incident and nothing more."
The director of The Mercedes team, Toto Wolff, had also interviewed the incidents, in conversation with his technical director, James Allison, who had worked for Ferrari between 2000 and 2005 and between 2013 and 2016.
"This is the second time we went out, a lot of construction points, "he said." In James Allison's words: "Do you think it's deliberate or incompetent?" "
Mercedes has since clarified on Twitter that there was "no accusation" against Ferrari. "Nobody seriously suggests that it was deliberate … Kimi made a mistake." Mercedes wrote
The Ferrari team director, Maurizio Arrivabene, had already strongly rejected any suggestion suggesting that his team had deliberately attempted to eliminate their rivals.
Arrivabene had been scathing in his response to the reported comments of Allison. "Who is incompetent? Kimi? Who is it to judge what drivers do in the car? ", He said," he really said something like that, he should be ashamed. "
" Allison worked at Maranello for many years, but now we're here in England to teach her to to be a gentleman I accept from Jacques Villeneuve because he was a driver, but this guy? "
In France, Vettel was penalized by five seconds and Räikkönen received 10 seconds at Silverstone. Räikkönen admitted that it was his fault after the race. He had climbed back inside, but had been stopped and unable to prevent his car from catching Hamilton. He denied that it had been anything other than a racing incident.
Vettel also scorned the suggestions, dismissing them as "silly" and "useless".
Wolff agreed that the penalties correspond to what the marshals were able to do, but they wondered if the way of handling the incidents that could have an impact on the world championship was sufficient.
"What we need to discuss with us is that if certain incidents occur and that they have significant consequences on the race, what will be the consequences," he said. "I was not at all comfortable with the incident because it's tiring to be removed in the first round."
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