Max Verstappen has placed the majority of blame on Sebastian Vettel for their opening lap crash which took himself, both Ferraris and Fernando Alonso out of the Singapore Grand Prix.
Verstappen and Kimi Raikkonen both got quick starts, whilst polesitter Vettel moved to cover the pair off by aggressively cutting across the circuit but collided with the Red Bull, forcing Verstappen and Raikkonen to collide.
The incident saw Verstappen and Raikkonen come to a halt at Turn 1 as Alonso was also collected in the chaos. Vettel meanwhile managed to continue with heavy damage before spinning just a few corners later, to eventually retire and hand the lead to race winner Lewis Hamilton.
Asked for his opinion on who was to blame, Verstappen replied: "I think mainly Sebastian. He started squeezing me.
"Maybe he didn't see Kimi on the left but that's not an excuse I think if you are fighting for the world championship, you shouldn't take those risks and really like squeeze someone that much.
"You can see what happens, Lewis is leading the race and the three of us are out. I tried to back out of it because I could see it coming but the rear tyres are wider than the front so I couldn't back out of it."
Verstappen insists he did nothing wrong and couldn't have avoided the collision because of where he was.
"I don't think it was a racing incident. At the end of the day they take a total of three cars and I was in the middle without doing anything wrong. I was just trying to have a clean start but we'll see what happens. At the end of the day, not only I retired, but all three of us have a bit of pain."
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