Sauber Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson agree they have moved on from their clash at the Monaco Grand Prix.
Nasr and Ericsson earned the wrath of team boss Monisha Kaltenborn two weeks ago after crashing out of the race. Though Ericsson was at fault for the crash itself the issue was complicated by the fact Nasr had refused to obey a team order in the laps prior to move over and let the Swede through.
The team last week vowed there would be no repeat of the incident, something Nasr said had been made clear to both drivers since.
"We left Monaco behind," said Nasr ahead of this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix. "What had to be said was said. We are here for another race weekend. We sat down with the team. As I said, everything is clear and left behind already. We moved on."
When asked if he trusted Ericsson after the events in Monte Carlo, he replied: "Yeah I do. The thing is the situation where we are we are always going to see the cars pretty close to each other anyway. So I never had anything against Marcus at all, so you have different cases in different teams but it was just the way it popped out in Monaco.
"It's a track very difficult to overtake on. I was starting my race from the pit lane because I was starting with an old engine and an engine that was already over-mileage. I was doing my own race when it all happened, but as I said I have nothing against him."
Sauber has been struggling for finances this year and Nasr admitted that situation made the crash even more difficult to deal with.
"For sure it doesn't help either way. We are struggling financially to build the cars, parts ... so much effort everyone puts in for the cars to be running there and nobody likes to see two cars out of the race, this is clear."
For his part, Ericsson said he was happy to put the incident behind him.
"It shouldn't be like that of course," Ericsson said. "It happened in Monaco and we all spoke about it, discussed it, cleared the air about it. We had some different opinions but it's all done and settled and we're looking forward to Montreal as a team."
Ericsson will drop five places from wherever he qualifies on Saturday in Montreal after being found culpable for the Monaco collision by the stewards.
