“This is very disappointing and hurts. We had the papers to win, but threw it all in the trash. There’s nothing we can do about it now, but we need to analyze this and learn from it.”
Leclerc took pole position on Saturday but only finished fourth in the race. Ferrari was surprised by Red Bull with a first pit stop, allowing Sergio Pérez to take the lead. Leclerc was then instructed to continue driving for the second stop, but at that point he was already driving in the pit lane. “It was clearly too late,” he said afterwards.
Team boss Mattia Binotto put his hand in his own bosom. “It’s too easy to talk about bad luck or luck. Of course there were situations that were not in our favour, such as Carlos (Sainz, ed.) who was held up after his pit stop by straggler Nicholas Latifi. But we clearly made mistakes.”