Lewis Ha�꧙�milton says he 'had to shuffle it' during the second safety car restart in order to catch out Sebastian Vettel but says the following clash took him by surprise in Baku.

After an initial safety car getaway went off without an issue, Hamilton found himself starting the race again a couple of laps later due to a second safety car which sparked the ma📖jor controversy when Vettel struck the back of Hamilton's Mercedes after the Briton slowed on the exit of Turn 15 ahead of the restart.

Vettel angrily proceeded to pull alongside Hamilton a💧nd bash wheels deliberately with his title rival, promptin🍸g stewards to hand him a 10-second stop-go penalty that would drop him to an eventual fourth place at the finish.

Vettel, who has come under a fresh FIA investigation which will be held next week, accused Hamilton of brake-checking him at the second restart but Hamilton gave a different version which he had hoped 𝕴to catch out his rival - but says he did the same thing at turn 15 in 𝄹both safety car restarts.

"There was a couple of different tactics in terms of when I decide to push, but that's after Turn 16," Hamilton sa🃏id. "It's either Turn 16 or later on. At that point I had to shuffle it 🃏as I couldn't do the same thing as I'd done before, but a turn 15 I did exactly the same, I was just trying to let the Safety Car go.

"[When] the Safety Car keeps coming out your first trick won't necessarily work against a four-time world champion so I had to come up with lots of different ways in order to make sure I came ▨into Turn 1 in the lead.

"But by Turn 7 I'm told the Safety Car i📖s going to come in, I'm only allowed a ten car-length gap between myself and the Safety Car whilst the lights are on. Going into Turn 15 I'm with around that gap and when I'm going down the hill I can see the lights switch off and at that point I d𓆉on't need to accelerate and speed up to keep that gap.

"So I kept a consistent pace, a con🎐sistent deceleration down to the apex and just didn't speed up. I did that the first time and did that the second time. It was just the second time I got a nudge."