Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen and Christian Horner have agreed with the penalty received by Nico Rosberg at the German Grand Prix.

The Mercedes driver was hit with a five second penalty after forcing Verstappen off the road while overtaking. Despite insisting he did nothing wrong, the stewards had other ideas.

"Explain to them I was full lock on the steering wheel and he moved under braking, that was the problem," Rosberg pleaded over the radio after being informed of the penalty

Verstappen, who eventually finished the race in third disagreed.

"I think he was quite far so he braked really late and at one point I thought he was going to run into me," he said. "I opened up and he didn’t turn in and I had to go straight and I had to go off track otherwise we would have crashed, Lewis knows."

Red Bull team principal Horner sided with his driver, saying that Rosberg "looked like he was driving to Cologne".

"The problem is [Rosberg] did a pretty bad job of it. The golden rule in a job like that is lock your fronts up and look as if you can’t stop," Horner told Sky Sports. "They’re the rules, that’s what the stewards deemed so I’m not going to complain today."