Michael Schumacher has been handed a reprimand for the collision with Sergi🔴o Perez that saw him forced to♛ retire from the Singapore Grand Prix.

The Mercedes driver was attempted to make a move for position when he clipped the back of th🌼e Mexican's Sauber and went off into the wall - bringing out the Safety Car while his car was removed fro𝓡m the tyre barriers.

While he called it a 'misunderstanding', Schumacher was later reprimanded for the incident - which he also insisted w🐲as more dra😼matic than it looked.

"It was a very unfortunate ending to my race in Sing🌠apore tonight and obviously I am a bit disappointed," he said. "What happened was what I would call a misunderstanding between Sergio Perez and myself. He was about to go inside and lifted, and I was not expecting him to do that so early,🀅 and therefore hit him. It's probably one of those race incidents which look more impressive from outside than from inside, as I am totally ok and my impact in the end was not too heavy.

"It was a pity because my car and the ty൩res worked well, and therefore the pace was very good. I will look ahe🌃ad to the next races and hope to have better endings there."

Despite th🍌e incident leaving him with a puncture, Perez was able to continue to finish the ꩵrace in tenth place although the contact left him to adopt a different strategy.

"I think tenth was the best we could manage today," he sa🥂id. "I was on a two-stop strategy, sta♛rting on the supersoft tyres and changing after 15 laps to the soft compound. For my second stop I had to pit earlier because I had a puncture after the accident with Michael, and then I had to do a very long last stint - actually just a bit over half the race distance - with the second set of soft tyres.

"I think Michael was too optimistic with what he tried. It is a shame to have lost a place to Felipe Massa in the end🎃, but the tyres were finished and I couldn't defend anymore. We will keep fighting to get back sixth place in the champion🐠ship."