Valtteri Bottas says George Russell has come up with “quite a theory” in his❀ stance that the Finn might have avoided their huge Emilia Romagna Grand Prix crash if it was another Formula 1 driver.

Williams driver an𓆏d Mercedes junior Russell speared into the side of Bottas having lost control of his car as he dipped a wheel onto the grass when attempting to pull off a move to take ninth place away from Bottas, resulting in a massive high-speed shunt between the pair. 

Both drivers emerged from their wrecked cars unscathed but Russell was left furious and claimed that Bottas had 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:squeezed him unnecessarily, gꦚoing as far as to sugg🍨est the Mercedes driver could have done more to avoid the accident.

Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff labelled Russell’s claim 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“bullshit”, while Bott𝕴as also rejected the Briton’s accusation, insisting he has “respect” while racing.

Asked about Russell’s comments, Bottas replied: “Sorry, I lost my alumi🍸nium foil hat soꦏmewhere. It's quite a theory.

"I'm always going to defend to a𓂃ny driver🍰, I'm not keen to lose any positions. That was normal defending, it could have been a lot more aggressive if needed.

"I don't agree with any of that at all. I was doing my thing. No matter who I would have been defending💧, it would have been exactly the same.

"Obviously he knew exactly that it was going to be damp there, because we have gone there lap after lap. And I knew as well, and it was just not a place to go 🅠in those conditions🐠 on slicks.

"But he still went there. It was his choice to go there, I was doing my job🙈 trying to defend, and I'm not going to move away and give him the dry patch back. That's how it goes.”

In a later media session conducted after his initial interview with Sky, Russell appeared to soften his stance over the collision after watching new footage of the incident, including what🌳 CCTV captured.

“When you can review ♔everything and look at it in slow motion and everything, a♚nd from certain camera angles, it all looks very, very different,” Russell explained.

“One camera angle makes it look one way, another camera angle, like I said, when you watch it 🍒from behind on🌜 the CCTV footage it looked quite clear, in a different opinion.”

Russell added: “Could it have been avoid💝ed? Yes. Was Valt🐼teri in the wrong? Probably not.

“Could he have done something slig๊htly more? Maybe. Was I in the wrong? I caused the crash by spinning, but was I wrong to go for that overtake? Absolutely nꦅot. You would have been foolish to lift at that position.”