Because his tyres were fresher than the ones of Carlos had, I think six or seven laps less than the ones of Carlos had and in better shape. "So why then by deciding to stop one did we stop Carlos? Because Charles had the track position and was leading, so he would have remained the leader of the race.
"In our case we had the two cars and there was not a sufficient gap to stop both of them because the second would have lost time at the pit stop and fallen back.
"We were the only one with two cars fighting for the good positions, the other teams had one car and certainly the decisions are a lot easier. "What happened was our two cars were too close to stop both of them, so we had to take a decision ," Binotto explained. However, Ferrari's strategists believed it was not possible to complete pit stops on both cars on the same lap and therefore told Leclerc to stay out. When Ferrari told Leclerc to stay out there was a nine second gap to Sainz at Safety Car speeds, which should have been enough to clear him from the pit box before Sainz came in. Leclerc was leading the British Grand Prix when a Safety Car was called on Lap 39 for Esteban Ocon stopping his Alpine car on track.įerrari had time to call Leclerc into the pits, but instead opted to keep him out on track while pitting teammate Carlos Sainz, who was running in second place.īy opting against pitting Leclerc, it meant he was on much older tyres than his rivals at the restart and he ultimately lost places to Sainz, Hamilton and Sergio Perez, who had all stopped for fresh tyres under the Safety Car. SILVERSTONE, England - Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has defended his team's strategy at the British Grand Prix after giving multiple reasons for the decision not to pit Charles Leclerc under a late Safety Car.
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