Hamilton: It was not my fault

Even though his reckless driving results in wheel banging with other cars all the time, Lewis Hamilton does not believe he was at fault for the incident which ended his Belgian Grand Prix just over a quarter of the way through. After passing the Sauber of Kamui Kobayashi, the McLaren attempted to take the racing line approaching Les Combes, although contact left the 2010 winner spearing into the Armco barrier.

“I'm not really quite sure, to be honest," Hamilton told BBC Sport when asked to explain his version of events. “I just remember hitting in the wall and I hit the wall pretty hard. It’s a bit unfortunate for the team because we were in a good position.

“As far as I was concerned, I was ahead of whoever it was I was racing and then I got hit by and that was my race over. That's motor racing. There have been a lot of races where we haven't finished this year, so that is just another of them.

“For whatever reason, we were massively slow on the straights – massively, massively slow – and I guess that's really what got us into that position."