F1: “Does he want to kill us?”

Mick Schumacher was furious with teammate Russian Nikita Mazepin as the pair came close to colliding at almost 200mph as they sprinted towards the finishing line on the final lap.

Schumacher’s onboard camera showed Mazepin weaved towards him as his teammate drew alongside as they accelerated from turn 20 towards the finishing line. Schumacher gesticulated angrily at Mazepin, then complained on his radio after crossing the finishing line.

“What the fuck was that, honestly?” exclaimed Schumacher on the radio. “Seriously, does he want to kill us?”

“Understood Mick, checkered flag,” his race engineer answered.

“The main thing was just I’m a little bit upset about losing my position to my teammate on the main straight,” said Mazepin. “I ran out of battery there so I was a bit of a sitting passenger. But it is what it is.”

The pair finished 12th and 13th, their best results of the season so far, which lifted Haas to ninth in the championship ahead of Williams.

“I think [it’s] a nice number for the team, but obviously some unexpected situations has happened with the other drivers which enabled us to get that position. But overall, it’s quite positive.”

“The race itself was not bad,” he said. “Very annoying because certain things made us fall backwards.

“The pace was there but we were experimenting with something because I had to manage the brakes from the beginning because they were overheating. I had to change my brake bias and because of the change I then was very prone to locking and I almost drove into a wall which lost me a lot of time. But so many times the race was stopped and then come to life again.”