An incident between Ferrari's two drivers at the Italian Grand Prix has opened a serious rift within the team. On the opening lap, an aggressive move into the first corner sent Lewis Hamilton into the gravel and cost him several positions. Charles Leclerc argued that his teammate had overstepped the mark in the battle. The Briton rejected the accusation outright.
"I was ahead into Turn 2. I was already leading at the apex. There was no 'we' about it," Hamilton insisted after the race. Carlos Sainz, who raced for Ferrari before moving to Williams, also weighed in on the dispute. The Spaniard, whom Hamilton replaced at the Italian team in 2025, said falling out with Leclerc two or three times over the course of a season is nothing out of the ordinary. Such incidents are unavoidable when two drivers are fighting for big rewards, Sainz argued, yet at Monza, where Ferrari race in front of their own supporters, the responsibility weighs far heavier — putting two red cars into each other in front of that crowd breaks one of motorsport's unwritten rules.
