Champions Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel have backed Nico Rosberg amid the German’s run-in with title rival and teammate Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Hamilton accused his Mercedes colleague of having deliberately crashed into him at Spa-Francorchamps, but Spaniard Alonso thinks: “It was a racing incident.<\/p>\n
“It’s impossible that Nico from the cockpit could have been so precise with his front wing to have cut a tyre of another car,” the Ferrari driver and double world champion told Britain’s Sky.<\/p>\n
“You need to be in surgery at the hospital with that sort of precision.<\/p>\n
“The bad part of the incident was for Hamilton, but it could have been the other way around — maybe Hamilton’s tyre resisted and Nico had to change the front wing and his race was over,” he added.<\/p>\n
Reigning quadruple world champion Vettel has the same view.<\/p>\n
“I think it was just a normal racing incident,” said the Red Bull driver, “and the discussion of intention should not arise.<\/p>\n
“No one intentionally risks losing his wing,” Vettel told Sport Bild, “and no one makes themselves the target of (the accusation of) unfair driving.”<\/p>\n
Even Nico Hulkenberg, the highly rated Force India driver, backed Rosberg’s view of the incident.<\/p>\n
“Nico did nothing wrong,” he is quoted as saying.\u00a0 “He tried to overtake because he thought he was faster.”<\/p>\n
Hamilton and Rosberg will resume their rivalry on Thursday at Monza, after the FIA paired them together for the official press conference.<\/p>\n
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