James Allison should be “ashamed” of himself after accusing Ferrari and Kimi Raikkonen of a “deliberate” crash or “incompetence” in his British GP clash with Lewis Hamilton.

Raikkonen put Hamilton firmly on the back foot at Silverstone when he hit the Mercedes driver on the opening lap.

Hamilton spun off and dropped down to 18th place in the classification.

Although he recovered to second place, it was a case of what could have been – and it was a case of Mercedes were not happy.

Motorsport boss Toto Wolff told Sky Sports: “In [technical director] James Allison’s words, ‘do you think it is deliberate or incompetence?’.