Lewis Hamilton said he felt fortunate to be alive after a collision with Formula One title rival Max Verstappen at the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Stewards handed Red Bull's championship leader Verstappen a three place grid penalty for the next round in Russia after his car landed on top of Hamilton's Mercedes, with the rear tyre hitting the champion's head.The halo protection device, a titanium ring around the cockpit, took most of the impact in a crash that left both drivers out of the race at Monza.
"I'm so, so grateful that I'm still here. I feel incredibly blessed. I feel like someone was watching over me today." "I think it's a racing incident and thankfully nobody was injured today," he said after a race that ended in a McLaren one-two with Australian Daniel Ricciardo the winner.
The cars ran wheel-to-wheel and made contact at the first chicane, the Red Bull lifting off the kerb and into the air with both ending up in the gravel.
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