While Lewis Hamilton backtracked on his criticism of Ferrari-s Kimi Raikkonen on Monday, the Italian team-s chief Maurizio Arrivabene launched a scathing attack on the Mercedes team.

Hamilton said he had accepted the Finn-s apology for driving into him in Sunday-s British Grand Prix and learned from his own "dumb" reaction to the incident. As Arrivabene raged at Mercedes- ungentlemanly behaviour and post-race suggestions of deliberate underhand tactics, Hamilton said Sunday-s collision was "a racing incident and nothing more." The collision on the opening lap was the second in three races in which a Ferrari had hit a Mercedes, which led to several at Mercedes to question the Italian team-s tactics.