MONTE CARLO — Kevin Magnussen now agrees he might have given Lewis Hamilton more room to keep away from their collision firstly of the Spanish Grand Prix.

Magnussen and Hamilton collided at Flip 4 on the opening lap of the race, with the contact giving each drivers’ automobiles a puncture.

Magnussen’s radio message after the conflict urged he felt Hamilton had deliberately pressured him off the monitor.

The Spanish GP stewards determined the collision was a racing incident and didn’t penalise both driver.

When he spoke to the media after the race in Barcelona, Magnussen had nonetheless not seen the incident once more so didn’t wish to remark additional on it.

On Thursday, talking forward of Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix, the Dane mentioned he had re-watched the collision and accepted his preliminary feeling had been incorrect.

“Yeah, I had an opportunity to have a look at it and naturally modified my view on it,” Magnussen mentioned. “I had a sense after I was on the monitor that he opened his steering however that is not what occurred.

“He bought into the slipstream of the Ferrari, understeered a tiny bit. I used to be tremendous near him, and I gave him a lot room for error, gave no margin.”

He added: “I simply want I had turned in a single millisecond later to have a bit bit extra… in a nook like that, in the event you’re gonna go spherical the surface you wish to be as near him as doable.

“You do not wish to go too huge and into the soiled a part of the monitor. That is what I did. We touched sadly.”

Whereas Hamilton drove by means of the sector from nineteenth again to fifth and was voted driver of the day, Magnussen didn’t convert what had been a really robust qualifying efficiency right into a single level for Haas.

“There was additionally numerous dangerous luck,” Magnussen mentioned. “If I had been a bit bit additional ahead after we hit we might have hit rim to rim and it will have been totally different. However sadly I simply hit the aspect of the tyre on his aspect of the tyre, puncture.

“Want I had given him barely extra room.”

The Monaco Grand Prix is stay on ESPN at 8.55AM (Japanese Time) on Could 29.