Mercedes Benz GP’s Michael Schumacher has apologized to former teammate Rubens Barichello for a maneuver that almost pinned the Brazilian to the wall during last Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix.

The race stewards found the former World Champion’s move to be extremely dangerous penalizing him with a 10-place penalty on the starting grid for the next race in Belgium.

Through his website, Schumacher agreed with the race stewards who found his maneuver too hard.

"After I watched the incident with Rubens again, I must say that the stewards were right with their assessment. The maneuver against him was too hard," Schumacher said. “It was pretty edgy to drive the car on the boundary, so I had to clash my way through the race and at the end it was like walking on ice.”

After the race, Barrichello said that he was just millimeters from the wall in what he described was the most perilous blocking move he had experienced in his entire racing career.