BREAKING: Lewis Hamilton speaks out on Dutch GP crash after 'very unusual' F1 incident

Lewis Hamilton has admitted it is "very unusual" for him to crash out of a race. The Ferrari driver said he did not know why he crashed during the Dutch Grand Prix in a bizarre incident which saw the Brit lose control of his car on the banked third corner of the Zandvoort track.

Rain had been falling in the minutes leading up to the incident and replays showed the Ferrari understeered onto a painted section just off the circuit. He appeared to lose all grip and buried the side of his car into the barrier, snapping off his front-right wheel.

But Hamilton was not ready to say that it was the definitive cause of his crash as he spoke to Sky Sports in the media pen while the race was still ongoing. He said: "I'm really not sure, I'll have to look back at it. As I went up the bank, the rear snapped out and I couldn't recover it.

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"It was a bit twitchy, the car, but I think we made real progress this weekend and the pace was looking pretty decent. I was catching George and I think I had the pace of a few cars ahead of me, but very unusual to not finish a race and to go out so early is definitely not great, but it is what it is."

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