Rosberg denies making crash admission

LONDON - Formula One pace-setter Nico Rosberg has denied admitting that he deliberately crashed into Lewis Hamilton after an incident which sent relations between the warring team-mates to a new low. In his video blog, Rosberg disputed Hamilton's interpretation of his comments on the crash which punctured the Briton's tyre and ended his race. "I've been told what Lewis said and the way he has stated his version of the events," Rosberg said in the blog, filmed in Hamburg. "All I can say is that my views of the event are very different." Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has threatened punishment of Rosberg but also backed the German driver's insistence that he did not deliberately cause the collision on lap two. Hamilton said Rosberg told him he caused the crash "to prove a point. –AFP

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