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Lewis Hamilton and George Russell collided in a bizarre 210mph fright in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix – before Max Verstappen took pole.
The Mercedes men came into contact on the main straight at the end of Q2, with Hamilton’s front-wing endplate dislodged in the meeting.
‘George just backed off,’ exclaimed Hamilton, as Russell moved into his path unwittingly when passing Ferrari’s then slow-moving Carlos Sainz. ‘That’s really dangerous.’
Russell, enduring a terrible afternoon in the upgraded Mercedes, said: ‘You didn’t tell me there was a car behind. I don’t know what the hell is going on in this session. The car is bouncing all over the place.’
Mercedes’ spokesman Bradley Lord put the coming together to a failure of communication. It seemed strange that the two cars were so close on track as they took off for flying laps.
Russell was eliminated and will start
