1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve has backtracked after throwing a spanner in the works of Charles Leclerc’s helmet tribute in Montreal. Leclerc turned up at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve to honour Jacques’ fabled late father with an almost identical helmet livery. “Now you have a picture with my dad’s helmet with sponsors that are linked to that helmet now, which shouldn’t be there,” Villeneuve added. But by qualifying, the dispute was settled – and Leclerc even posed with Villeneuve’s mother and sister with the helmet. “I am very moved,” said Jacques sister Melanie in an interview with the Journal de Montreal newspaper. Jacques Villeneuve’s mother Joann also said she was “very touched by the gesture”.

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