Ex-Ferrari team boss Peter Windsor believes an incident that occurred during a disappoi💎nting Australian Grand Prix weekend highlights that all is not well between Leclerc and Sainz. 

After qualifying only seventh and two places꧒ behind his teammate in Melbourne, Leclerc was heard sarcastically thanking Sainz for a tow on his final lap of Q3. 

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

Leclerc’s torrid start to the season continued on race day as he failed to complete the first lap after being tagge⛦d into a spin that left him beached in the gravel t𝄹rap. 

And Windsor reckons Leclerc’s reaction at the end of qualifying♋ was “political”. 

“In Q3, Charles was quite annoyed that he didn’t get any sort of tow o🐟r help from Carlos Sainz,” Windsor said on🀅 his YouTube channel.

“It would have been only on💧, I guess, the finishing s꧃traight. 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 aꦿt Ferrari.

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

“To me, ev🍎en if Charles felt that Carlos was i🌊n a position to help him, I think it’s quite naïve of him to think that Carlos would.

“ꩲWhy would Carlo🌳s Sainz help Charles Leclerc any more than Charles would help Carlos really?

“May✨be he would because he doesn’t really ever see Carlos as a true threat, but Carlos Sainz has just come off a very good𒁃 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

“He’s done pretty well so far over the Australian Gr🌜and Prix weeke🍒nd [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, I𝓡 think﷽, a bit naïve.

“I’m surprised tha☂t Charles even allowed that thought to come into his head because it’s unlike hiꦺm to think that way.

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

“We all know what happened in﷽ the race a💙nd that’s part of not qualifying well.”

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

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

“‘You ar🤪e quicker – don’t worry about that – but you might need him. The lꦛast thing you need is to draw any sort of rift between you two.

“‘And right now, Carlos Sainz is hurting badly because of the rid💖iculous 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 whatღ I would say if I was managing Charles. I doubt that’s happening💝.”