"We simply fell victim to a miscommunication," Hamilton cut short. "I was pushing hard, even before the straight I thought George wanted to go back to the pits. Then he came back into the line, I thought I was in his slipstream and I thought he was going to let me pass. Instead, he wasn't."
"I didn't realize Lewis was in that spot," was Russell's version instead. "I was focused on Sainz, who was ahead of me, then I saw too late that he was coming. The team made a communication error, which, moreover, did not affect my result. My Mercedes still had performance problems, which is a shame."
"There was a misunderstanding between our two cars. A lack of communication that we should have handled better at the race wall. They were in an intense phase of Q2, so we can't blame either of them," was instead the judgment of Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff.
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