The meeting brought Ferrari’s two drivers together with the three men who run the team, days before Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix at the new Madring circuit in Madrid.

Leclerc emerged owning the Turn 2 clash on the opening lap at Monza, where Hamilton was forced wide and dropped from fourth to 10th.

“Having the Turn 2 incident is not something we ever want to see again,” Leclerc said in the paddock. “It’s pretty clear that I could have done a better job just slowing down the car and not putting Lewis then in a difficult situation.”

The Monegasque, who himself crashed out at the Parabolica on lap two of the same race, said he had gone to his team-mate privately.

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“I have a lot of respect for Lewis, and I told him that in Turn 2 I didn’t behave the way I should have, and the way a team-mate should.”

Hamilton’s ‘no rules’ verdict

“Rules of engagement? No, there weren’t any,” Hamilton told reporters when asked whether the drivers had gone into Monza with any pre-agreed ground rules.

Hamilton had already gone through the incident with Vasseur privately on the Monday after the race, calling that conversation frank and open but noting that the two men would always land on different opinions before finding common ground.

The seven-time world champion has also suggested any change in Ferrari’s approach would arrive too late to save his 2026 title chances. Andrea Kimi Antonelli leads the drivers’ standings, and Hamilton said after Monza that any move to formally back one Ferrari car would now be “many, many weeks too late” and that “it’s far too late for those decisions to come”.

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“The on-track battle between me and Charles Leclerc? If you look at the history of this sport, it has happened before, so it is nothing serious,” he said.

Leclerc dizzy but cleared to race

Leclerc’s shunt into the Parabolica barriers had prompted further medical checks in the days after Monza. He said the only lasting effect had been felt in the moments immediately after the impact.

“I will be 100% fine,” Leclerc said. “It was only right after the crash that it was just a little bit strange and I felt a little bit dizzy. I’m feeling good now, so I’m ready for this weekend.”

The Spanish Grand Prix runs on Sunday at Madring.

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