Carlos Sainz speaks out about the disagreement within Ferrari after the Italian GP. Lewis Hamilton expressed his dissatisfaction after the race at Monza about the lack of ‘rules of conduct’ for the battles between teammates on the track at the Italian team. The Brit went off track in the first lap at Monza due to the fight with his teammate Charles Leclerc. Sainz – who was himself Leclerc’s teammate at Ferrari for years – recognizes the situation: “When you have two competitive teammates, these situations simply happen.”
Lewis Hamilton spoke out after the Italian GP about the way of racing between himself and teammate Charles Leclerc. The seven-time world champion was not happy about how the Monegasque made himself wide during the first lap at Monza, causing Hamilton to even end up in the gravel.
Carlos Sainz was himself Leclerc’s teammate at Ferrari for years and has experience with such incidents with the Monegasque. “I can tell you when you have two competitive teammates, these situations simply happen,” he says in Madrid. “I had such a discussion with Charles two or three times a year. Even fights. And then a few days later we called each other and talked it out. That last part always happened.”
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That a similar incident happens between the two Ferrari teammates at Monza is also familiar to Sainz. In 2023, the Spaniard also fought with Leclerc in Italy, then for the last podium place. “That was intense,” the Madrilenian recalls. “We didn’t go so far as to have a fight. And it had been worse before. But at Monza you pay extra attention, because it’s Monza. Then you have the full responsibility not to hit the driver in that other red car.”
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