Max Verstappen fumes at Lewis Hamilton after clash at Monaco GP - "F*** him!"

Max Verstappen was left raging at after a scary near miss during qualifying for the . Both drivers turned the air blue over the radio as they reacted to the moment they almost crashed at high speed on the tight Monte Carlo street track.

It happened during Q1 on Saturday when was on his final flying lap of that part of the session. But the Dutchman had to abandon it within seconds as he came across Hamilton's moving slowly at turn three.

Verstappen had to take evasive action and, as a result, abandoned his lap. And he quickly jumped on the radio to make it clear how angry he was about it, with an X-rated message to his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase to complain about the seven-time champion.

"F*** whoa! Mate! F*** Lewis," he fumed. And then the TV broadcasts showed that Hamilton had also been left swearing over the radio, though his ire was directed at his Ferrari race engineer Riccardo Adami for giving him some unclear information.

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Adami had warned him that Verstappen was coming fast, three seconds behind him on track. But then he sent a second message straight after to tell the Brit that the was actually moving slowly – only for it to then roar past around the outside.

"Sorry, he's slowing down behind, watch your mirrors," Adami told Hamilton. And when it became clear to the driver that he had just impeded Verstappen, he replied: "You said he was slowing down mate! F*** man."

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Hamilton faces a potential grid penalty as a result of the incident, despite the fact both he and Verstappen made it through from Q1 comfortably. Race control confirmed that the matter had been sent on to the stewards and that the incident would be investigated after qualifying had concluded.

It had already been an eventful day for . That happened at the very end of the session when he lost control at the same part of the track, turn three, and buried the right side of his Ferrari into a barrier.

It caused significant damage but it was nothing that the Ferrari mechanics could not fix in time to get him out for qualifying. And their day was going far better than it was for their rivals down at who saw both their drivers fail to reach the top 10.

crashed in Q1 at the chicane on the exit of the famous tunnel section, bringing out the red flags and meaning he will start Sunday's race 15th. And then suffered a mechanical problem and came to a stop in the tunnel, again stopping the session and meaning he wouldn't manage to set a time in Q2.