Red Bull team principal Christian Horner thinks Sebastian Vettel will change his mind about the first corner incident with Daniil Kvyat when he views it back on TV.
Vettel labelled Kvyat a "mad man" over team radio after the Red Bull driver passed him on the inside of Turn 1, causing Vettel to swerve into his Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen. But Horner believes the ex-Red Bull driver will change his mind when he views the incident again.
"I think when Seb has a good look at it he might change his opinion," he said. "There was an enormous gap up the inside there. Ferraris were getting dizzy with each other and Kyvat took advantage of it, so I think it was a racing incident to be honest but I couldn't see personally anything wrong with it."
Kvyat went on to take third place at the end of a strong weekend for Red Bull after Daniel Ricciardo qualified on the front row on Saturday.
"I'm still in shock from Saturday!" Horner said. "At this circuit, we compromise our set up to find pace in sector three where we know we're weak and so we're running light on downforce compared to cars around us. But the car, particularly in the race, seems very good and I think that yesterday Ricciardo just nailed the perfect lap."
Ricciardo went on to lead the race, but a puncture on the back straight dropped him down the order.
"It's a great shame for him today because having nailed the start, running in clean air, it looks like he hit some debris, cut the tyre and then in his unluckiness he was lucky it happened right at the end of sector three," Horner said. "But then just to compound it the safety car then came out which screwed him completely and put him back to 18th, then his recovery from there -- I mean he had to pass Raikkonen, Hamilton, all those guys -- and it was fantastic.
Asked what would have been possible for Ricciardo without the puncture, Horner said: "I think second place. I don't think he could challenge for the win but he was comfortably the second faster car. But Dani Kyvat picked up the baton and ran with it fantastically well from that point onwards and drove a very, very tidy race.
"The middle sector of the race when he and Sebastian were on the same tyre [the soft] there was nothing to choose between the two of them. Sebastian couldn't get within DRS. Seb obviously had that last set of softs that he'd save from Q3 but for the last stint versus our medium tyre - and even on them if you look at Ricciardo's pace and Kyvat's pace it was very respectable."