Ferrari has attempted to ease the backlash from its controversial tweꩵet which blamed Max Verstappen for crashing into Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel to see the three retire on the opening lap of the Singapore Grand Prix.

After a stewards investigation into the clash ruled that no🐬 one driver was to blame by&nb♔sp;calling it a racing incident, all three drivers escaped punishment having failed to score at the Marina Bay Street Circuit.

But the♊ clash was sparked into f💧urther controversy when Ferrari’s official twitter account placed the blame solely on Verstappen – something fervently denied by both Verstappen and Red Bull boss Christian Horner.

“I don’t think it was a racing incident,” Verstappen said. “At the end o🥃f 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.”

“How on earth y✨ou can work that out from watching that, I have no idea,” Horner said. “Anyone who can blame Verstappen out of that ne🌼eds their eyes tested.”

Acc🦩ording to Ferrari, the tweet which has fanned the flames on the controversy was n🥂ot posted by the team’s head of communications but someone in the Ferrari garage who wasn’t officially endorsed by the team.

Despite this, Ferrari have kept the tweet on their feed while responding, “What we tweeted was a factual description of events. No need to spe🍌culate o💜n this.”

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