Grosjean qualified seventh, so will drop to 10th, coincidentally where Norris finished the session. After qualifying was finished, Norris offered an alternate view on the incident which was not initially picked up by TV cameras.

“If you look at the end result, he did hold me up in the final corner. And for any driver you have to do as much as you can to make sure that doesn’t happen. He did get screwed over a bit by Sebastian, who overtook him into the final corner.

“I don’t really know what to say, Vettel screwed him over, which isn’t a very nice thing to do in terms of us being racers; we try to respect each other in terms of you’ve got a car ahead, you don’t overtake them into the final corner like Magnussen and Fernando in Monza last year as you ruin both of your qualifying laps. I think he did what he could when he knew, but he did impede me.”