Monaco was certainly not a race to remember with happiness for Ferrari. The Maranello stable, despite the excellent result obtained in qualifying, Has in fact finished in second place with Carlos Sainz e to the fourth with landlord (and poleman) Charles Leclerc.
The strategy…wrong
Un outcome, And a defeated, burning. Ferrari was wrong in the aspect of the strategy and failed to allow Leclerc and Sainz to bring home a one-two punch, which on paper was clearly within reach. Indeed, the F1-75 had all the characteristics to bring home the win. It didn't go well, but it is inevitable to say that a world championship, with an opponent like Red Bull, we will also play on the details.
Rueda: "Wrong with both Leclerc and Sainz"
An error that was admitted by the entire Ferrari wall. In addition to Binotto, in fact, they also arrived on the subject the statements di Inaki Rueda, chief strategist red.
“We had an excellent race with Carlos, he started from second position and after the first round of stops he found himself leading the race. While our initial plan was to try and cover Perez's layover, we figured it wasn't going to work. And at the last second we told Carlos to stay out. When we felt the track could be quicker on dry tyres, Carlos was the first car in the front group to switch to slicks. This gave him a certain advantage, but unfortunately when he left the pits he found himself behind Latifs, and that cost him more than three seconds. If he hadn't been blocked by Williams, we're pretty sure he would have won the race".
The mistake with Leclerc
As for the strategy error committed with Leclerc, Rueda commented: “Even with Charles we made mistakes. One of them was to cover for Perez. While with Carlos we realized that we were unable to answer Czech, with Charles we actually had a greater distance. At the start of lap 18 Charles was more than ten seconds ahead of Perez and we thought this margin would close. The why is simple: Sergio was much quicker on intermediate tires than Charles' full-wet tyres. We had live data from the cars and we thought this gap would reduce from about ten seconds to maybe five, four, three seconds tops. As we were coming in for our stop we saw the ten second gap close: seven, six, five, four, and the last time reference we had indicated that Charles would come out after the stop a second ahead of Perez. What we didn't expect was that Perez would go nine seconds faster overall on that lap, and that's why we lost the race to Charles".
STATEMENT SOURCE: Motorsport.com
