It's a Monday very bitter at the Ferrari house. There Maranello stable he missed again, this time for its own mistake, the opportunity to close the gap on Red Bull.
The weekend, initially, perfect
In Munich Sergio Perez wins. The pilot of Red Bull, thanks to a great strategy by the team, he takes his first victory of the season. Second the first Ferrari, that of Sainz, with Verstappen closing the podium. Fourth time instead for Charles Leclerc. The Monegasque still lacks the home victory, yet this time it seemed that everything was going the right way.
The mistake you don't expect
The variant pioggia, without a doubt, ruined and upset the plans in the Ferrari house. But the mistake made in the pits, under the plan of the strategy, is really unacceptable. Leclerc thus loses the first position, which he had managed to win on Saturday in qualifying. The little clarity it made all the difference. Calling Leclerc to the pits, only to realize too late that it wasn't the right choice, was the mistake that cost the Monegasque victory. And that's something we can say with great certainty.
Leclerc: "The race had to be ours"
Leclerc and Ferrari they come out defeated from the Monegasque weekend especially if you analyze what you could take home. There red it was in fact the fastest team on the track and Monaco had to be brought home. Leclerc knows this very well, that in addition to the "No words” declared in the radio team, he added to term of the GP:
"It hurts. When we have the pace we can't afford to finish in fourth position. I was six, seven seconds ahead. I was managing the gap on who was chasing me. It really hurts, especially having lost so many points in the home race. We have to improve. Today the race was supposed to be ours."
Binotto: "We were wrong"
The error at the pit wall is therefore evident. In this regard, there was no shortage of passwords from team principal Binotto:
“I'm sorry for what happened, it means that we made a basic mistake. A rider who starts first and finishes fourth… there are some choices to review. Having said that I'm sorry for the circumstances. There are things to review. I would ask clarifications to the FIA for the yellow line touched by the Red Bulls when leaving the pits, it is quite evident. It has already happened in the past and it's a 5-second penalty, so we don't understand this passivity and would like to understand it better. The race isn't over for us, there are things we want to clarify."
“We will certainly look at the dynamics of Leclerc's second pit stop with him. It is far from obvious to choose in those moments. We didn't have to anticipate but choose after the moves of the others. As expected, the Red Bulls stopped to mount the intermediate tires and were much faster than we expected."
Following this big sunburn, all that remains is to reflect. Take some time to think and take advantage of the layover week before Baku. Red Bull, in terms of race wins, leads 4-2. Ferrari, for you now it will be forbidden to make mistakes.
STATEMENT SOURCE: Motorsport.com
