Lewis Hamilton returned to winning ways at the Red Bull Ring in Austria despite a last-lap crash with his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg as the battle between the championship rival once again turned ugly.
Toto Wolff labelled the collision “brainless” as the pair collided for the third time this season, having taken each other out in Spain as well as bashing tyres in Canada, and the blame was firmly laid at Rosberg’s feet as he ran deep into turn two before sliding into Hamilton.
Mercedes were keen to stress that Rosberg was struggling with a brake failure on the final lap, but the sight of Wolff hitting the work bench in the pits in anger summed up the feeling among the German manufacturer.
Hamilton was booed by a partisan crowd on the podium, to which is responded “it’s not my problem, it’s theirs”, and the three-time world champion will head home to Silverstone for next weekend’s British Grand Prix with the championship lead down to just 11 points.
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