Ex-Ferrari team boss Peter Windsor belie🀅ves an incident that occurred during a disappointing Australian Grand Prix weekend highlights that all is notౠ well between Leclerc and Sainz. 

After qualifying only seventh and two places behind his teammate in Melbourne, Lecleꩲrc was heard sarcastically thanking Sainz for a tow on🌌 his final lap of Q3. 

“S**t lap, I had no prep this time,” Leclerc told his team over the radio. “Big thanks to Carlos for the tow. Got a bit of speed there, al☂ways nice.”

Leclerc’s torrid start to the season continued on race day as he failed to complete the first lap after being tag🍃ged into a spin that left him beached in the gravel trap. 

An𒆙d Windsor reckons Leclerc’s reaction at the end of qualifyi🐲ng was “political”. 

“In Q3, Charles was quite annoyed tha✤t he didn’t get any sort of tow or help from Carlos Sainz,” ꦛWindsor said on his YouTube channel.

“It would have been only on, I guess, the finishing strai﷽ght. I don’t think there’s anywhere else in Melbourne you can get any help at all.

“I thought it was odd ♔that he made that public, that he was upset about that, because you’ve got ✱to live in your own world and you’ve got to be very cocooned when you’re at Ferrari.

“You’ve got your guys and and you’ve got to work in a very apolitic♏al way, so it was quite a political reaction I think he had to it all.

“To me, even if Charles felt that Carlo🎃s was in a position to help him, I think it’s quite naïve of him to think that Carlos ওwould.

“Why 𝄹would Carlos Sainz help Charles Leclerc any more than Charles would help Carlos reall🌃y?

“Maybe he would because he doesn’t really ever see Carlos ⛦as a true threat, but Carlos Sainz has just come off a very good Saudi Arabian Gran🧔d Prix.

“He’s done pretty well so far over the A🅘ustralian Grand Prix weekend [and] above all he just wants to outqualify Charles Leclerc.

“To think that Carlos is then going to try and help Charles with the tow was, I think, a bit🏅 naïve.

“I’m surprised that Charles even allowed that thought to come into his head beca🌱uജse it’s unlike him to think that way.

“I think, partly because of that, he didn’t qualify well and he had ꦅa terrible race.

“We all 🥀know what happened in the race and that’s part of not qualifying well.”

Windsor continued: “I think that’s a really interesting dynamic of what’s going on at Ferrari right🧸 now.

“If I was managing Charles Leclerc, Iꦫ’d be saying to Charles right now, ‘the best thing you can ꩲdo is to have a great relationship with Carlos Sainz because you might need him as the season goes on’.

“‘You are quicker – don’t worry about that – but you might need him. The last thing you need is🧜 to draw any sor𒆙t of rift between you two.

“‘And right now, Carlos Sainz ♍is hurting badly because of the ridiculous penalty he was given at the final restart in Melbourne, so the best thing you can do is actually get on his bandwagon, sympathise with꧅ him and go along with how ludicrous that penalty was and just put your arm around him a bit’.

“That’s what I would sayജ if I was managing Charles. I doubt that﷽’s happening.”