Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Force India’s Esteban Ocon have been summoned by Formula one stewards after they collided during the Brazilian Grand Prix and then got physical in an angry confrontation.

Verstappen was leading at Interlagos on lap 44 when he tried to pass backmarker Ocon, who tried to retake the position with terrible consequences.

The two cars touched, the impact sending the Dutchman into a spin that cost him a second successive victory and allowed five-times world champion Lewis Hamilton to win for Mercedes.

Verstappen, who had called Ocon an idiot over the radio among other more colourful language, angrily confronted the Frenchman after the race and gave him a shove.

The 21-year-old was unrepentant when asked about the incident.

“We are passionate about the sport, right?,” he said. “It would be odd if I would shake his hand.”

Verstappen, who was seething after he crossed the line second, dismissed those who said he had taken things too far.

“I don’t care what those people say,” he said. “I am a winner.

“To get taken out like that and then to get a stupid response from his side as well, I was unhappy about that.”

To add spice to the argument, Ocon has a long-term Mercedes contract.

The stewards issued a statement summoning both drivers for an alleged breach of the FIA International Sporting Code by acting in a manner “prejudicial to the interests of any competition or to the interests of motor sport generally”.

The statement referred specifically to “physical contact with another competitor in FIA garage” after the race.

The stewards had already handed Ocon a 10 second stop/go penalty for causing the collision – a sanction that Force India team boss Otmar Szafnauer was predictably unhappy about.

“I don’t think Max left him any room,” he told Sky Sports television.

“You’re allowed to unlap yourself.”

Ocon said Verstappen’s post-race behaviour was out of order.

“What I am really surprised about is the behaviour of Max coming into the scales,” the 22-year-old said.

“The FIA having to stop him from being violent, pushing me and wanting to punch me and that is not professional,

“I am used to the fights with Max, he has always been the same. It goes back a few years.”

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said Ocon’s actions ‘beggared belief’ and he was “lucky to get away with a push”.

“Emotions are running high. I told him (Verstappen) ‘just get yourself under control on the cool-down lap’ because he’s lost a victory through no fault of his own today,” he said.