Lewis Hamilton accepts Kimi Raikkonen's apology for ‘racing incident’
Lewis Hamilton says he has accepted an apology from Kimi Raikkonen for crashing🅰 into him on the opening lap of the British Grand Prix.
Polesitter Hamilton suffered too much wheelspin at the start as he dropped behind Sebastian Vettel and Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas at Turn 1, before being turned around by Raikkonen a few c💃orners later as the pair collided.
Raikkonen was handed a 10-second time penalty for the clash and later admitted his punishment was deserved, while Hamilton staged a sublime comeback from towards the back of the fi𒉰eld to 🎐finish second.
Lewis Hamilto𒐪n says he has accepted an apology from Kimi Raikkonen for crashing into him on the opening lap of the British Grand Prix.
Polesitter Hamilton suffered too much wheelspin at the start as he drop🔯ped behind Sebastian Vettel and Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas at Turn 1, before being turned around by Raikkonen a few corners later as the pair collided.&nꦬbsp;
Raikkonen 𓄧was handed♎ a 10-second time penalty for the clash and later admitted his punishment was deserved, while Hamilton staged a sublime comeback from towards the back of the field to finish second.
The Briton later ques꧙tioned Ferrari’s “interesting tactics” and suggested Raikkonen’s collision could have been intentional, but in a ඣpost on social media Hamilton revealed the pair had reconciled.
Having ღreflected on the collision, Hamilton said he now accepts it was a ♍“racing incident and nothing more”.
“Kimi said sorry and I accept it and we move on,” he wrote on his I🌼nstagram story𒆙. “It was a racing incident and nothing more. Sometimes we say dumb shit and we learn from it.”
“Thank you for loving me f🍷or being me with all my flaws,” Hamilton adde♊d. “I know I’m not perfect.
“Accepting who you are aཧnd loving yourself are so important. Go be great today and be you and give zero fcks to what anybody thinks.”
Hamilton sits eight points adrift of chief title rival Vettel head﷽ing into the next race in Germany in two weeks’ time.
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