After Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton's battle in Monza, Juan Pablo Montoya believes that Ferrari bosses need to sit down with the two drivers. After the start of the Italian Grand Prix, Hamilton dove down the inside of his teammate. The Briton then found himself on the outside through Turn 2 and went into the gravel, with Leclerc leaving him no room.
Speaking on
F1 TV, Montoya said that not only team principal Frederic Vasseur, but also Ferrari's senior management, need to sit down with the two drivers.
He began: "They need to go to not only Fred but above Fred and sit them down.
"Both of them need to go to Maranello this week, and they need to sit down and have a proper talk because, in my opinion, Charles came out and said, 'I raced Lewis like I would have raced anybody else'.
"But it's your teammate, and you've got to respect your teammate, and you've got to respect the team," the Colombian argued.
The Ferraris' Lap 1 battle in Monza - Photo: Race Pictures
Hamilton calls for 'rules of engagement' at Ferrari
Speaking to
GPblog, among others,
Hamilton said in Monza on Sunday:
"Look, you know, I don't race dirty. I've always raced clean and fairly and always left space. And so I don't think they should be worried about me. I mean, I've come into the team and tried to be respectful of space and definitely not put the team in jeopardy. "And I stand by that, and I that's all I can talk about is on my side. You have to speak to Fred [Vasseur] about the other side and decisions that that are taken there. But I'll keep pushing and trying to get more from the team and from my car and from the engineers and design and everything like that."
Ferrari has the chance to bounce back immediately at the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid this weekend.