Lewis Hamilton says he is at a loss to understand the inconsistencies surrounding making two defensive manoeuvres, as he felt Sebastian Vettel🐽 did during the Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix.

Title rivals Hamilton and Vettel ran wheel-to-wheel in last weekend’s race at Sochi, with the Briton ultimately coming out on top to pass the Ferrari driver at🦹 Turn 4, having avoided a collision when Vettel shut the door at Turn 2.

Hamilton immediately opened his team radio feed to call out Vettel's "two moves" for being illegal but the Ru♑ssian GP stewards took no further action following an initial inv𝓡estigation.

Speaking in the build-up to this weekend’s Japanese Gr🀅and Prix, Hamilton admitted he is still frustrated about the decision and inferred cert🌌ain drivers get away with particular incidents while others do not.

“The sꦑame rules are not always applied to the✅ same things,” Hamilton said. “As far as I am aware, when I drive down the straight I’m not allowed to move twice - but there are drivers that do move twice and nothing happens to them.

“Maybe there are some drivers that moved twice and then something does happen to them. I was really surprised when I watched the 𒀰reಞplay because it was a clear two moves.

“But when you are doing 200mph things happen so fast. I thought we were going to crash. I th𝄹ought at that moment the win might be going and I might be going up in the air.

“I was really surprised that when I pulled out of it I managed to keep the car in one piece and we ma🃏de it to the second corner and it actually ended up being awesome racing.”

Hamilton dism💞issed the suggestion that anger over Vettel’s driving had fuelled his determination to pass, adding his frustration over initially losing a place to hi♎s main championship rival during the pitstop phase was the more likely factor.

“Honestly I don’t hold anger in the c🐟ar,” he💞 explained. “I mean that’s not true, when I came out third I was relatively peeved off that I’d done all of this work and somehow the strategy didn’t go right and I was definitely frustrated at that.

“So if anything it was that anger that propelled me to want to get back past. Being in third I knew that I’d be losing several 𒊎points to Sebastian, which through my driving wasn’t supposed to happen so I was very eager to get by.

“It didn’t🍒 happen that time so I did it next time but that manoeuvre he did didn’t make me more aggressive to then fight 𝔍the next corner.”