An entertaining Chinese Grand Prix was to provide even more fun when the TV cameras caught up with the drivers in the ante-room ahead of their appearance on the podium.

Having collided with his teammate at the first corner, watched on by company president Sergio Marchionne, Vettel had hit out at Daniil Kvyat several times over the team radio during the course of the race insisting the Russian was the cause of the incident.

Consequently, when Kvyat asked Vettel post-race about the incident, the Ferrari driver saw the red mist.

As Vettel got more and more worked up, the Russian laughed in his face, insisting "that's racing".

Two weeks later, and whilst Vettel has calmed down, he stands by his outburst.

"Everything that has been said or needed to be said has been said," he told reporters. "I spoke to him straight away in the room before the podium. I didn't know it was on camera but it doesn't change anything. I would say the same again.

"For sure, after the race you're a bit hot and the emotions are pumping," he admitted, "but that's what we want, so why should I sit here and say maybe I should have been a little bit more quiet?

"We are racing and you also say things that sometimes afterwards you wouldn't say exactly the same, but in that situation I said it the way I said it. I don't think I said anything bad; I get along with him really well. We are racing in the end it was a racing incident. Of course, it was probably the best outcome for him, but these things happen."

But isn't that exactly how Kvyat and the stewards saw it, a racing incident?

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