Kimi Raikkonen admits an accident error with Hamilton and denies an intentional accident

Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen accepted a 10-second penalty that he received on Sunday from the British Formula One race leader after he was bumped into Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes in the first lap of the race. . Although he admits the mistake, the Finn denied that the strike was conceived as a team tactic aimed at undermining the English

"It was my mistake ", said Kimi Raikkonen. In the third bend, I locked the steering wheel and knocked Lewis in the back corner, obviously he drove because of me, but that's sometimes how it happens. "

The fight between the Ferrari driver and Lewis Hamilton was for the third position.On pole, the Englishman went wrong and lost two places." Kimi Raikkonen did not make a good start, fell from one position and reached the third turn of the Silverstone circuit in fourth place.It stopped to brake, fried the tires and hit Hamilton, who made another shot

Lewis Hamilton came back Kimi Raikkonen lost only one place, placing fifth, but was sanctioned by a 10-second stop in the pits.

"Without the mistakes and the penalty of 10 seconds, it would have been better, but I tried, in my opinion, I did the same thing. Kimi Raikkonen explained, refuting Mercedes' comments that the collision could have been intentional, as it was the second time in three races that a Ferrari Ferrari car Sebastian Vettel collided with Finland's Valtteri Bottas

Lewis Hamilton spoke of "interesting tactics from this side" on the podium. And when Sky Sports asked him for his opinion on the incident, Mercedes team director, Toto Wolff, said: "A racing incident, unfortunately at Castellet, was the first time that we were being withdrawn and now it's the second one "

Winner of the event, Sebastian Vettel defended his teammate." Things can happen, but I think that's it. silly to think that everything that happened was deliberate, "he said, then he explained what happened at the GP of France two weeks ago." In France, I lost my wing, so I missed my own race, I think it's easy to attack and have a good game and it's easy to to have an incident. "I just saw it on the monitor and I did not think about it." [19659002KimiRaikkonenadded:"It'sacharacterizedafterthelastfewprintswhichaboveustodosomehowbutwewerenotabletodothatanymore"Unfortunately"

Ferrari won Sunday at Silverstone and broke the hegemony of Mercedes, which has been at the top of the podium since 2013. In qualifying for the 2018 Drivers World Championship, leader Sebastian Vettel has took an eight-point lead (171-163) over second Lewis Hamilton. At Manufacturers, the Italian team has doubled its lead over Mercedes and now has close to 20 points in advance (284-267).