Charles Leclerc✨ has held his hands up for the collision with Max Verstappen at the start of the Japanese Grand Prix which wrecked both their races.

The Ferrari driver suffered a poor getaway from the front row which saw him slip to third place by the first corner and while defending his position at Turn 2 he slide into Verstappen who had been attacking around the outside which𓃲 sent the Red 🅷Bull Honda driver into a spin.

With heavy damage to his front wing, the Monegasque had to pit which set⛦ up an initial recovery drive to sixth place at the chequered flag.

But after being given a five-second penalty for colliding with Verstappen he was handed another 10-second time penalty for driving his car in an unsafe condition when he failed to pit immediately following the collision, dropping Leclerc t🌼o seventh place in the final results.

“W𒊎ith the start, I had a poor start. I got a little bit distracted. I saw Seb moving a little bi♑t. Then my reaction time was very poor. The actual start was not so bad, but the reaction was very poor, and with Max I just did a mistake clearly,” Leclerc explained.

“I was on the inside, and being behind Seb and Lewis, I lost a little bit of the front, but normally you need to anticipate those things, and I d🌌idn’t. I’m the one to blame.”

Verstapp♛en was critical of Leclerc as&nb𓆉sp;his race was prematurely ended when he retired with damage after 14 laps.

“I like hard racing but I don’t think this was hard racing, this was jusꦡt irresponsible driving into Turn 2,” Verstappen said.

Leclerc ha🐼s also been given two penalty points to hi🍬s F1 record.