Ted Kravitz takes aim at Red Bull after Max Verstappen collides with Lewis Hamilton

According to Sky F1 pit lane reporter Ted Kravitz, ‘racing incident’ was the term Red Bull used when Max Verstappen caused a crash after his collision with Lewis Hamilton in Hungary.

Mercedes drove into Verstappen after the first round of pit stops in Hungary and chased Hamilton, much to Verstappen’s frustration. This frustration only increased when he could only pass Hamilton again when the seven-time world champion came into the pit lane for his second pit stop.

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Still trailing Hamilton in the final stint, Verstappen returned for another attack, but this time it ended in contact as Verstappen steered the car down the inside of Hamilton into Turn 1, locking up and hitting the right-front wheel of Hamilton’s Mercedes, sending him airborne for a moment. Verstappen finished in P5.

The stewards investigated the collision, which Hamilton labelled a “racing incident”, but the stewards took no further action.

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner also chose that term in his judgment.

“I would honestly say it was a racing incident,” Horner told Kravitz.

“I would be disappointed if anything came of that.”

Still, Kravitz had decided that the crash was Verstappen’s fault. According to him, Red Bull had already released the description of the ‘racing incident’, while they knew that Verstappen was the culprit.

“First of all, they call it a racing incident, which is what Red Bull does when it is Max Verstappen’s fault,” Kravitz said on his show ‘Ted’s Notebook’.

“But everyone else blames Max Verstappen on the last part, that he outbraked himself and would have gone straight if Lewis hadn’t turned in.

“Lewis was steering…well, Lewis wasn’t steering, he was there, and then Max flipped over.”

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To complete the circle of blame, Verstappen blamed Hamilton for their collision.

“I went for a move that was absolutely right,” he told Sky F1.

“But then, right in the braking zone, when I’m already determined to brake, he suddenly keeps pulling to the right. If I hadn’t turned around while braking straight ahead, I would have hit him.

“So at one point I block, of course, because he just keeps turning to the right.

“People are obviously making a big deal about what happened in Austria, which is not true, blah, blah, blah, but that is on the first move and then you just brake straight. You keep your wheel quite straight. And I had the feeling that now it was not on the first move, then, during braking, it keeps turning to the right.

“You can’t do that when someone has committed on the inside. That’s why I locked up, because otherwise we would have collided anyway because he would have just turned on me.

“I don’t think it was wrong. I went for a move that was completely on. I don’t think I braked too late.”

Hamilton would eventually complete the podium in Hungary, the 200th podium of his Formula 1 career.

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