Stewards of the Russian Grand Prix took no action against either Romain Grosjean or Jolyon Palmer following the pair's first lap collision.
Shortly after the start of the race as the tail end of the field plunged towards Turn 2, Palmer took the racing line into the corner, flanked by a Sauber on his left and with Grosjean's Haas trailing on his right.
The Renault driver was touched by the Haas, got out of shape and then collided again with Grosjean, sending both men out of contention.
"I had a decent-enough start then heading down to turn two there was a Sauber on my outside then Romain made a very ambitious move over the kerbs on the inside from behind," Palmer explained.
"There was no space for me to go because of the Sauber, so maybe Romain wasn’t aware of that, but he kept it in, hit me, then we were both out of the race."
The Frenchman saw things differently from his own vantage point.
"We had a great start and I was on the inside of Palmer under braking," he explained.
"I don’t know why he turned in."
“I was there and then he turned in. I tried to get as much as I could on the apex, but he just hit me, spun and came back and hit me again. The car was badly damaged and our race was over."
The stewards did not point the finger at either driver however, ruling that "no driver was wholly or predominately to blame for the collision".
The mishap capped an incident-filled weekend for Palmer which included a chassis change, an engine change and a crash of his own making in qualifying.
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