High tension at Ferrari ahead of Monza
Ferrari targets the home GP at Monza after two GPs where it did not even reach the podium on tracks theoretically favorable to the SF-26 such as Budapest and Zandvoort.
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In the Netherlands, Qualifying made the GP difficult, in which there was also some strategic indecision poorly digested by Lewis Hamilton who apologized later.
“Mercedes managed the situation very well, acted impeccably – the words of Montoya reached by AS Colombia about the team orders given during the Dutch GP – what Leclerc did by disobeying the engineer opened a terrible Pandora’s box, because it’s as if he told the team ‘I am above your orders and, if I disagree with something, I won’t do it’. And this cannot happen. It’s terrible because it creates a negative atmosphere within the team and generates tensions inside it.”
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“I don’t think Hamilton would have made the podium, but he would have had some chances – Montoya added – Hamilton was half a second faster and Ferrari tried to avoid trouble by calling Leclerc to the pits, but Charles basically made it clear he was not willing to listen if Hamilton was involved“.
