JUST IN:Lewis Hamilton throws away Azerbaijan win as Max Verstappen crashes "I put everything on the line and fought as hard as I could today.
On that restart when Checo moved over towards me, I clipped a switch and it basically switches the brake off so I just went straight. "It's very hard to take and I'm obviously really sorry to the men and women in the team who had worked so hard for these points. "We'll regroup and come back strong I'm sure.
I had no idea I'd even touched it [the switch]. "Verstappen looked to have thrown away the lead of the standings thanks to his tyre failure, but in a new twist in the championship, Hamilton's 15th-placed finish means the Dutchman retains the lead of the standings without even finishing the race.
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