Rosberg Vehemently States Ferrari Crash to be Unintentional

The biggest talking point of last night’s British Grand Prix was the clash between Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen at the start of the race which led to a 10-second penalty for the Ferrari driver. But he still ended up on the podium.

The Mercedes team later gave a scathing post-match press conference in which they alleged that Ferrari used dirty tactics to disrupt the race for their rivals. But former driver and 2016 champion, Nico Rosberg felt those claims were unfounded.

“The answer is pretty simple. 100 percent not on purpose”, Rosberg said. “We also saw that in Austria because even there, Kimi is not driving for Sebastian.”

“In Austria, Kimi was second and Sebastian third and there was no letting Sebastian past at all. They didn’t even consider that.”

“Kimi is driving for his own thing. Kimi was out there and just completely messed it up, braked way too late, locked up and torpedoed into Lewis.”

“It is unusual for Kimi because usually those kind of things don’t happen to him. So a bit strange. But definitely not on purpose, and well deserved to get a 10-second penalty and two points.”

Rosberg may well have a history with Lewis Hamilton but these words do not seem biased at all. Fans took to social media to slam the Briton’s words and felt that he was exaggerating, while completing disregarding the fact that Raikkonen did get a penalty for the incident.

Having said that, one can understand why Mercedes felt aggrieved at being hit by a Ferrari for the second time in three races. The post-race comments were no doubt made out of anger on having lost out on a potential race win for the home hero.

But what Mercedes failed to take into account was that Ferrari too have been a victim of such incidents and they chose to only take into account the incidents which occurred to them.