Sebastian Vettel doesn't believe he deserved a penalty for forcing Felipe Massa off the circuit during the British Grand Prix, insisting it was simply a "racing incident".
The Ferrari driver was hit with a five-second time penalty which didn't impact his finishing position of ninth, but believes it was uncalled for as he never meant to run the Williams off track, blaming the tricky conditions for a small error.
"I was on the inside and he went wide at Turn 1 and I was on the inside for Turn 3," explained Vettel. "Basically we hit the brakes at the same time and I tried to turn in but I lost the car so I had to open up and went wide myself.
"It was not my intention to force him off the track because I was going off as well so it wasn't something I could control.
"For some reason the stewards took the view that I did it on purpose and I got a penalty. It was a racing incident."
Meanwhile Vettel agreed with the decision to start behind the Safety Car, but criticised the extreme wet tyres as "only good enough for following the Safety Car".
"Obviously it depends where you are [on the grid]. I was looking forward to the start, to move ahead. But if you're in the lead then it's a safe bet you'll stay in the lead," he said.
"I think it was the right call, there was quite a lot of aquaplaning on the first half of the track, but the otherr half was quite dry.
"It's wrong to criticise the call to start behind the Safety Car, we need to criticise the fact nobody has any trust in the extreme wets. We'd rather take a lot of risk with the intermediates, even though there was a lot of aquaplaning, simply because it's the quicker tyre.
"I think we've mentioned it a couple of times that the extreme wets, in this case, are only good enough to follow the Safety Car. "
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