The Aston Martin pair made contact in the latter stages of Sunday’s race at the Socꦡhi Autodrom.

With Stroll struggling for pace as the rain started to ꦡfall, Vettel closed in o♊n his teammate. 

On the approach to Turn 10, a gap opened to the left of Stroll, allowing Vettel to maওke a move, but as he d𝓀id, the Canadian closed the door and the pair collided. 

Remarkably, there was no significant damage to either car as Vetteꦯl go through unscathe🌱d.

Reflecting on the incident, Ve𓆉ttel said: “I guess it was a misundersꦺtanding, maybe he didn’t see me or expect me, fortunately nothing happened, but unfortunately we are both out of the points.”

Giving his side of the story, Strol♛l explained: “It became very slippery out there and I did not see Sebastian alongsid🌊e me. We will learn from today and move on to Turkey in a few weeks’ time.”

Afte🌸r running most of the race outside of the top 10, Vettel moved into the points just before the rain arrived ꦓon Lap 48. 

The four-time champion was one of the few drivers to stop later for intermediates 𒀰in a bid that the rain would clear.

“In the end gambling on the wrong option to stay out with the dries, not the only one, but it hurts us in the end,” Vettel added. “Initially the rain was coming but 🐬it wasn’t coming a lot, it looked like we were doing the r💧ight thing but then it became more intense with rain, standing water, no chance to stay with the slicks. 

“Very slippery, you lose tyre tempera𝓡ture and have no profile to get rid of the water, was very very slow, we had a very slow lap the whole lap, which was vꦐery costly.”