Ferrari workforce principal Frederic Vasseur mentioned he was “annoyed” on the manner the incident performed out.
“It is a whole lot of frustration for me however I am not crucial,” he mentioned. “It is a whole lot of frustration for the two,000 individuals working for the undertaking. And this I’ll want time to digest.”
The Frenchman added: “We’ll focus on tonight, we’ll repair it tomorrow after which we’ll be targeted on the cycle.”
Hamilton added: “Fred’s doing his greatest. Fred got here and spoke to me earlier than the race and I feel he was nervous and I feel he simply needed us, in fact, he desires these two drivers to do effectively.
“From my facet, if I am coming from behind and I am taking all the chance and it finally ends up we lose as a workforce, then I feel I might have some answering to do, as a result of it impacts lots of people.
“However the different manner round, I am within the lead and it was simply pointless.
“The core factor to recollect, which possibly that comes with age, however each choice you make within the automotive impacts all of the people who work within the background for the entire workforce.
“So working as a workforce, a part of our job and a part of our contract is now we have to work as a workforce, which we might have simply performed immediately. So it is a disgrace to see us lose as we did. It’s going to proceed except motion is taken.”
On Leclerc, Hamilton mentioned: “The man’s 28 years previous, so I do not assume it is an age factor. I feel it is a mentality factor. It is like do or die, both I win or none of us do, and it should not be that.”
The incident was the newest and arguably most critical of a sequence of tensions between Hamilton and Leclerc this season.
It follows Leclerc pushing Hamilton off observe on the first nook of the Italian Grand Prix.
The race earlier than that, Leclerc ignored a workforce order to let Hamilton by once they had been on totally different methods.
In Singapore final month, there was one other incident when Hamilton felt he ought to have been let by once they had been on totally different tyres, however Ferrari refused to make the decision.
Verstappen, who capitalised on this newest battle in Mexico, mentioned: “Ferrari had been actually quick, I do assume they made it a bit of bit troublesome for themselves preventing one another and that is why I used to be capable of capitalise on that. I imply, I take it, proper?”
