Mercedes blames stewards for failing to look at Bottas incident

Daniel Ricciardo's race was over after just one corner in Mexico. The Australian came into contact with Valtteri Bottas. Ricciardo thought of a racing incident, but the Mercedes camp thought of a penalty for Ricciardo.

After the start, it's a long way to the first corner on the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. Ricciardo had a good start and a good slipstream to grab. The Australian made a mistake in the first corner and braked. The driver of McLaren may have taken too much on his plate, but he sees it differently.

Ricciardo or Bottas the culprit?

''It seems like I block all my wheels on the straight, but then immediately have control again before entering the corner. However, it looks like there was no room. Valtteri came in thinking there was space, but Perez and I were sitting there. I'm not accusing Valtteri of anything though, it's just a racing incident,'' Ricciardo said according to sport.de.

Mercedes is disappointed that the stewards didn't look at the incident. They point to Ricciardo as the culprit, who then without penalty could hold up Bottas for a long time in the race. ''The stewards should have looked at this. At that moment it was already over. We could have scored some more points, but that's not our goal,'' said Toto Wolff.