Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz they had walked together, basically in agreement on what worked or not, but yesterday they looked for each other and did not find each other. A crossroads had spread their opinions, to the point that it seemed to listen to drivers from different teams: if Charles criticized the strategies – having found himself on unmanageable hard tires has displaced him -, Carlos pointed his finger at the car. In tune, the Spanish, with Mattia Binotto. The team principal has not climbed on the mirrors but he took the bull by the horns. Not that of Red Bull, unfortunately. He spoke of “false stepAnd also of failurebut in a sweetened version: “Out of thirteen races we have failed one“. In short, says Binotto: it is an episode. And one may agree, but it is undeniable how the serious stumbling block killed the hope of a sprint for the World Cup.
An inexplicable Ferrari
The first thing Binotto wanted to do is take down the version of a strategic disasterimpression fed by radio communications between Leclerc and the low wall: «The car did not work as expected after Friday practice, it had no rhythm and we will have to investigate the causes to restart. This is our first concern today, every discussion on strategies comes later“. And then the irritation for those who question the wall: “Other teams make mistakes, they don’t change anything and end up winning the World Cup, I don’t understand why we should blow someone up at every race“. But Leclerc didn’t really send those hard tires down: “I feel fit and not happy at all. The first and second set of medium tires were fine and I wanted to continue, I asked to be able to do it but the decision was different and we mounted the hard ones. So we wasted a lot of time. At that moment I could not have avoided them but I do not want to go into details, but I say that we will have to discuss it with the team.».
Ferrari, other than holidays
On itself it guarantees, without reserve: «I am fully charged and I would have been even without the summer break. In the first part of the season we experienced a swing of emotions: something has always happened, but I’m fine and at this point I can’t wait to get back on track.“. Think about what holidays await him, poor fellow: instead of preparing to enjoy them, he is already doing it the countdown. Completely different the speech of Sainz: «The cold caught us. The car had no rhythm, we ate all kinds of rubber, it didn’t even go with the soft ones. And I tried to overtake Verstappen with the pit stop but my stop lasted 4 “6“. Not even being able to count on the law of large numbers: also the tire change went wrong.
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