“Putting a fellow driver in hospital and writing off a car, receiving a menial penalty, and still winning the Grand Prix, doesn’t feel like much of a punishment.

“The disappointing thing from me is that it just felt like a desperate move from Lewis.

“He’d lost the start, he’d had a go down the Wellington Straight, he started wheel-banging with Max down there and then to stick a wheel up the inside at Copse Corner, one of the fastest in this championship, pretty much flat-out at 180mph, there’s only ever likely to be one consequence of that.

“It’s disappointing from a seven-time world champion that he make such a desperate move and puts a fellow driver in hospital.”