The Monegasque: “I got angry so much, I tried to open the radio as little as possible”. The British: “At that juncture I took many seconds behind Charles”. Team Principal Vasseur: “The exchange of positions with Hamilton? Never easy but they obeyed and I think it was the best decision. Now the updates”
How much frustration in the Ferrari house after Miami’s GP? “Lots of, a lot,” replies Charles Leclerc, also the protagonist of the sparks with Lewis Hamilton after all for a placement in the rear, seventh place. “There are things that it is better to talk to with the team and that’s what we will do today. But it’s a very difficult Sunday. I was so angry, I tried to open the radio as little as possible, but it was difficult”.
“From four races, including this, I say that we are bringing out the maximum of the machine potential – said the Monegasque at the Sky Sport microphone -. This weekend there was no more, we must understand why since the positive feeling of the previous three races was not there: we are not fast enough”. Is it still possible to believe in this Ferrari? “I always believe it. After a day so obviously the frustration is high and I don’t want to be positive necessarily. I will put it all to the end, but we must be better, to improve the car because so far we are not there: it was a difficult day”.
Hamilton speaks
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“It was a little frustrating certainly but I wouldn’t say that I was not happy, only it was not clear what they wanted to do,” comments Lewis Hamilton later in Sky starting from the radio teams in which his impatience was clear. “It was not the right situation for the team. First of all we didn’t want to be in that position. Then I had a better rubber and the car gave me excellent sensations, while Charles had a rubber that I had before and that initially it was not good, and was struggling in front of me.
Vasseur on pilots and updates
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“I think it was the right decision, Lewis had a softer tire than Charles, we made an exchange of positions to take Antonelli following the internal regulation and then we did the opposite. It is never easy, the pilots obeyed but I think it was the best decision”. To talk about the ‘ballet’ of positions between Leclerc and Hamilton is the Principal Frederic Vasseur team, which anticipates updates from the next GP: “Yes, but I don’t think it is a matter of updates, it is a matter of finding the best compromise first of all with this car. We have a small step expected for Imola, then there is another in Barcelona: the most important thing is to put everything together. Low speed curves while the curbs are very exploited there.
Vasseur on Ferrari
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“I think McLaren was on another planet today, 30 seconds in front of everyone. When Max resisted he completely ruined the tires. Our step was more comparable to that of Red Bull and Mercedes, but on another planet”, continued Vasseur in the Sky microphone: “I don’t have the feeling that we found the best possible balance for the whole weekend, we have struggled again with the new mixture In qualifying with used tires, this generates frustration.
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