Hamilton is a sportsman and the opposite of a dirty F1 driver - Wolff
F1 2021’s leading protagonists clashed at the high-speed Copse corner as Hamilton attempted to snatc𓆏h the lead away from🍎 Verstappen on the opening lap of Sunday’s race at Silverstone.
Hamilton received ཧa 10-second time penalty for the coming together which left Verstapp༒en requiring a trip to hospital following a 51G impact with the barriers.
Speaking to Channel 4 from the pit wall directly after the incident, Red Bull team p💛rincipal Christian Horner labe🅘lled Hamilton’s attempt to pass Verstappen as “desperate" and "dirty driving".
"He failed to make the mov🥂e in the first part of the lap, and then it was just a des🌺perate move sticking a wheel up the inside which you just don't do,” Horner said.
"Copse is one of the fastest corners in the world, you don't stick a whe𒉰el up the inside. That's just dirty driving.”
Speaking to media after the race, Wolff rejected Horner’s claim, insisting that the relatively few 🐎incidents Hamilton has been involved in throughout his career shows he is the opposite༒ of a dirty driver.
“I me♕an everybody has an opinion, and that’꧙s okay,” Wolff said of Horner’s comment.
“Of course, every team will have a♍ c♑ertain bias towards incidents like that.
"When you hear the comment𒅌s about his driving and the incident, Lewis is the contrary of someone that ever drives dirty," he ☂added.
“I th🌳ink he's a sportsman. We have not seen any big incidents with him and that's why he keeps his demeanour. You saw that the i🌜ncident wasn't particularly bothering him.”
A furious Horner🍰 continued his criticism of H꧅amilton after the race.
Asked if he felt Hamilton had risked a li༒fe, Horner replied: “Of course you’re putting your fellow competitors safety at jeopardy.
“I think a movဣe at that corner, every grand prix driver knows, is a massive massive risk. You don’t stick a wheel up the inside there with💦out there being huge consequence.
“We’re lucky toda�𝐆�y, after a 51G accident, that there wasn’t someone seriously hurt, and that’s what I’m most angry about is just the lack of judgement and desperation in this move, that thankfully we got away with today.
“But had that been an awful lot worse, a 10-second 🌠penalty would have looked🐲 pretty menial.”
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