Leclerc was visibly annoyed by Ferrari’s strategy at last weekend’s F1 British Grand Prix which caused him to fall from first to fourth-place - then watch tea🌌mmate Carlos Sainz win the race.

Suggestions then emerged that some Ferrari team members opted a🐻gainst joining a celebratory photo with Sainz - which Leclerc denies.

Leclerc was visited by Binotto in Monaco and, ahead of the F1 Austrian Grand Prix, said about rumours of rifts within Ferrari: “This is untrue and I wish I didn’t get this [question], because it’s𓆏 the exact question that I’ve got everywhere else.

“I wish I wouldn’t need to fight for this type of thing. We are extr✤emely united.

“Is there disappointment after the last race because we finished first and𓂃 fourth? Yes there was. 

“Were we v♔ery happy that Carlos won his fir♊st race? Yes we were, honestly.

“But obviously before the safety car you were first and second and you finished the race first ꦅand fourth so there’s some kind of disappointment too.

“[There’s] not any kind of division in the team.”

Why did Ferrari boss Binotto visit Leclerc?

Binotto was spotted wagging his finger 🐼at an annoyed Leclerc after the British Grand Prix.

“He was first quite angry with m⛦e ꦜafter Silverstone because he saw me extremely down which obviously he understood but he just wanted to make sure that I was OK,” Leclerc said.

“And I realised that OK, I had done an amazing job🌄 considering the situation that I ꩲhad found myself in after the safety car.”

Leclerc has not been on the podium for five 🦹races. The early championship leader is now trailing Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in the title fighᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt.

He explained being visited by Binotto: “Then in Monaco, ꦍsomething we usually do, he came to Monaco because the last five races have been quite hard on me, and I just wanted to stay at home and disconnect a bit from everything, to be fully 100% for this weekend.

“He just came to Monaco to speak 🔯about the last five races and to make sure it was all fine on my side.”