Hamilton would win the race, after his last lap overtaking move over Rosberg ended with contact that resulted in Rosberg finishing the race fourth.
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Rosberg forced Hamilton off the track, but the Briton rejoined, the pair touching briefly again, and pulled clear to win.
Hamilton, who was behind Rosberg courtesy of a curious strategy by his Mercedes team, was closing in on his team-mate in the final stages of the race.
Mercedes AMG team boss Toto Wolff has raised the topic of team orders at his squad, following the last lap collision between his two drivers.
“I could see Kimi behind me, he was catching up a lot”.
“I managed to overtake some cars at the start and had some good battles so that was really good fun”. That’s our goal. That’s my goal. “There are 1,300 people on the team that are watching us, and even through this hard time it’s important how we project that energy as leaders – because we are the leaders of this team”.
Wolff said: “In Barcelona, I was much more at ease because we had 30 races without a collision”.
“Firstly for myself, because that would take the joy of racing out. Team orders are not something that should deprive them of their excitement”.
“The contract is a long-term decision and isn’t influenced by a race incident”, team boss Toto Wolff told reporters at the Red Bull Ring. “We are looking like a bunch of idiots”.
“You can’t clearly say who’s more to blame than the other. As a matter of fact that needs to be avoided”.
“The only outcome is to look at all the options, and one option is to freeze the order at the certain stage of the race”.
Asked if he felt he was getting to a point where he could no longer work with Hamilton, Rosberg replied: “I don’t think of the big picture like that, I am just thinking about the race”.
“Rosberg, speaking in a Facebook video after the race, outlined his disagreement about the stewards’ verdict and maintained his innocence”.
Nico Rosberg at Parc Ferme at the end of Sunday’s race. “I don’t need to take the ideal line, and I had Lewis on the outside and I wanted to keep him there”.
“He (Rosberg) didn’t give him enough space”. That was always the intention.
He added that he had the inside position and went a bit deep in the corner, but he is surprised that Hamilton turned in an in his view, that caused the collision.
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Stewards are investigating Rosberg, who started from sixth on the grid, for causing the collision at turn two on lap 71 and for not stopping with a damaged front wing that could have been deemed risky.
