F1 2021’s two title protagonists came to blows on the opening lap of the British GP at Silverstone as they battled hard for the🏅 lead.

Hamilton attempted a dive down the inside of Verstappen into Copse but tagged the rea༒r-end of his main rival’s car, sending him into a high-speed, 51G impact with the barriers.

Hamilton was hit with a 10-second time penalty for the incident but still went on to claim an eight𝔉h British GP win to cut Verstappen’s championship lead down t✱o eight points.

Speaking to Sky Germany, Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko argued that Hamilton shoul💖d face a ran ban for his part in the coming together.

"You can't do that with the normal sporting code,” Marko said. “I don't know what the maximum penalty would be, but such dangerous and reckless behaviour should be punished with a suspensio🐼n or something.

"If a competitor massively touches our rear wheel with his front wheel, ౠthen that's no longer a racing accident in the fastest corner of the course. That is negligent to dangerous behaviour."

Red Bull team principal Chri𓂃stian Horner said his side will consider its options before launching any kind of protest.

“I think there are rights available to us but unfortunately the stewards are pretty set in their decision and it’d be meaningless to take things further, ﷽but we’ll look at it, talk it through shortly, and that would be my initial reaction,” he explained.

Horner added: “Of course you’re putting your fello🤡w competitors safety at jeopardy and I think a move at that corner, every grand prix driver knows, is a massive massive risk.

“You don’t stick a wheel up the inside there without there being huge consequence. We’re lucky today, after a 51G accident, that there wasn’t someone serio❀usly hurt.

“What I’m most angry about is just the lack of judgement ⛎and desperation in this move, that thankfully we got aw🃏ay with today. But had that been an awful lot worse a 10-second penalty would have looked pretty menial.”

Horner also confirmed Ve😼rsta🌜ppen’s car was completely “written off” in the crash.

"It is a very expensive accident, written off the car,” he said. "We still lead both world championship🦂sꦫ but with a much diminished lead.

“It has been a very frustrating day after such a strong day yesterday and I think that probably added to Lewis’ desperation, having lost the sprint race, he was pretty wound up and probably why heꦚ made an ill-judged move.”