Gasly fumes: Magnussen nearly put me through the wall at 300km/h

A fuming Pierre Gasly has claimed that Kevin Magnussen is 'the most dangerous driver he has ever raced with' and claimed that the Dane 'literally put him through the wall' in an incident near the end of a pulsating Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

The Toro Rosso man was visibly upset when speaking to the media after the race explaining that at the end of the final safety car of the race, Magnussen had closed off his space and almost sent him careering into the barrier. Gasly had to readjust and sustained damage, that was enough to keep him out of the points.

The young Frenchman said that, after that, there was no point racing as he was only in a position to make the end of the race.

He said: "First thing, Kevin is the most dangerous guy I have ever raced with.

"He literally put me in the wall at 300 km/h at the restart and completely ruined the race. I would have been in the worst case P10 at the last restart, so this is one thing.

"The Safety Car came out, we pitted and were P11. I knew points were on the table. I was going to pass him just before the Safety Car line 1, went on the side, and he just put me in the wall right in the middle and took half of my floor out. Both my front wheels went in the air, broke my right mirror and bent my steering as well. After that I was just trying to survive until the end of the race. There was almost no point to race after that."

The drivers have history; Gasly had a narrow miss with Magnussen during FP2 and openly criticised the Haas driver at that point. He continued with his rant, saying: "Honestly I don't care about all this. At some point safety, and at 300 km/h, he did all the race like this. I knew exactly what he was doing, and he put me in the wall.

"He's been always like this. He's been always racing hard. I don't mind racing drivers which are hard, but like this is just way over the limit. You don't put someone in the wall at 300 km/h."

In his defence, Magnussen responded by saying that his car had suffered damage in an earlier incident and he could not avoid Gasly.

The Dane stated: ""I had so many vibrations in the car that the mirrors were useless, I couldn't see anything at all. It was pretty early - apparently already Turn 19 - that he was alongside me.

"Naturally it's too bad it happened. I knew it would be very hard to keep them behind me after that Safety Car. When the wheels locked, there wasn't much I could do about it."