Video: Hamilton telling Leclerc ‘I didn’t want to clip you and send you off’ after Copse battle. Hamilton and Charles discussing their battle.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton told Scuderia Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc that he was anxious to avoid hitting the F1-75 car when the two went wheel-to-wheel through Copse as they fought in the final part of the 2022 British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Circuit.

The moment was compared to the duel between Lewis Hamilton and his championship rival Max Verstappen on the first lap of the 2021 British Grand Prix, when Hamilton and Verstappen made contact, as the Red Bull was sent into the wall at high speed. 

In the latest video of Scuderia Ferrari’s behind-the-scenes YouTube series Full Access, Charles Leclerc can be seen discussing with Lewis Hamilton before the race in Austria in the Red Bull Ring media pen.

In the recently published video, the Mercedes driver can be heard discussing the pair’s duel for third on lap 48 of the British Grand Prix. Here is the moment from the video published by Ferrari:

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