The British duo mad𒈔e contact as they𓆉 diced for position while making their way through Barcelona’s opening sequence of corners at the start of Sunday’s race.

Hamilton emerged from Turn 2 unscathed but Norris, who started one place ahead of the Mercedes driver in third, picked up front-𝄹wing damage that forced him to make an unscheduled pit stop.

The incident effectively ruined Norr🐻is’ race, with the McLaren driver goi🌳ng on to finish a lowly 17th. 

And seven-time world champion🌞 Hamilton felt Norris would have picke♔d up a better result had he been more “patient”. 

“I just felt a big hit from behind,” explained Hamilton, who equalled his best result of the season b𒅌y finishing second. 

“𝄹But obviously Max [Verstappen] and Carlos [Sainz] went quite wide and deep into Turn 1, and they we🍒re coming back across, and I basically got in the wake so I had to be patient and then I got a hit from behind.

“I think it 🐻was a shame for Lando because he did such an amazing job yesterday, it was great to see McLaren up there on🐟 the second row.

“I think today, probably even if he was ahead of me going into♉ the corner, we would’ve overtaken him, because we had slightly more pace, I would say, probably race-trim-wise.

“So it ended up not being a great result for him. But I think i✅f he was just a little bit more patient today he would’ve had probably a better result. But we live and we learn.”

Offering his view of the collision, No🌠rris reckoned he simply🍌 got “a bit unlucky”. 

“I didn’t see the other car because the Red 🍃Bull went o🃏ff ahead of me,” Norris told Sky. 

“𓃲And because of that I thought there would be normal pace around Turn 2 – and everyone checked up massively.

“Just a misjudgement from my part.

“Maybe I could’ve fought Lewis m꧅ore around Turn 1 but at the same time he was pretty committed and I probably would’ve ended up off the track. Maybe it would’ve been a safer option just to commit to going off.

“But I think it was just a bit un♋lucky. There was a little bit of a gap on the inside, and all of a sudden you hit the brakes ﷽harder than you ever would at Turn 2. Nothing more than that. It happens. But it didn’t change our day.”