Sainz, the only survivor of the Ferrari crash in Monaco

Ferrari needs to analyze and much what has happened to Monaco GP ng Formula 1. The Italian team started with Leclerc in first position and Carlos Sainz in the second. And the only certainty is the set of Maranello not done right. In Monaco, a circuit where almost impossible to reach, strategy is key. The rain didn’t help because it provided more options for surprises. But the reality is that Ferrari has lost positions with Red Bull along with its two drivers. Sainz finished in second, but Pérez won, starting in 4th. And Leclerc, who came out first, saw how his partner was Carlos and the two red bull they caught up with him to finish the fourth. Unacceptable result in this race for a team that wants to win the same title.

But you have to go further to analyze what happened. Charles Leclerc said at the end of the race that the team “I’ve made a lot of mistakes” and on the radio he was furious: “I have nothing to say. I have nothing to say…. Ai, ai, ai … we can’t do it. We can’t do it.”. “Charles, let’s focus, there are many races and we will get back together”Binotto replied. “Yes, yes, I am sure we will recover. But at home, it hurts. “

Leclerc blamed the team. No self criticism. It’s true that the primary responsibility for team strategy falls on the wall, with a broad and overall view of everything happening on the track, greater than what the pilot can figure out. however, the wall also requires feedback from the pilot to confirm or exclude an approach.

That nuance is key. And if not, let’s check the facts. Leclerc clearly led the race, without error, but the track dried up. There Red Bull chose to continue the attack, and for risk it used its second car, Pérez’s, which was fourth, which stopped it to put up intermediates on lap 16, too early. Verstappen would do it on lap 18, as would Leclerc, and Sainz chose not to stop. The classification at that moment was as follows: Sainz leads with heavy rain tires worse than Pérez (2nd), Leclerc (3rd) and Verstappen (4th), they all have intermediates.

What’s the matter? Leclerc lost his position to Pérez for being the victim of a book undercut. The Ferrari wall took two laps to react and that was a mistake. But the biggest mistake was not seeing the team or the driver that it was all too late to stop and they had to stay on track to replace the dry tire.

Xavier Marcos, Leclerc’s track engineer, has slipped the possibility of waiting on the track to dry the tires directly. Leclerc made sure they asked him if he wanted to go straight to drying the tires and he said “yes, but not now, because it’s too early”. But later, Leclerc was told by radio that Pérez had stopped to place intervals, and after a lap, the rider himself sent a clear message: “With intermission it will be faster, for sure”. That is, it invites to do the change of wheels towards intermediates. And so it did, though too late, out of place for Pérez.

Sainz, the opposite is the case

The opposite happened to Sainz. The Spaniards made the difference about Leclerc in his comment. “Box, box”, they said to Carlos, calling him to place the intermission. “I’m not sure if this is the right decision. It’s about to dry out.”Carlos pointed out. And a few seconds later, the wall trusted his words and agreed to let him stay outside. That left Carlos Sainz in a hegemonic position. The race is in him. He just has to use strategy to win. The man from Madrid turned the tables with his intuition, his good reading of the conditions and his courage to ask the wall to rethink its plan. Leclerc didn’t do it and Carlos did. Simple.

However, Charles reasoned after the race making sure the team had to decide in these situations: “Failure is not the word. Sometimes mistakes can happen. But now there are so many mistakes in general. Obviously in those conditions you rely a little bit on what the team sees because you don’t see what others are doing on intermediate tires, on dry tires.They asked me if I wanted to go from super wet to slick, and said I said ‘yes, but not now’, it was a bit later in the race.I couldn’t understand why we changed our minds and went to intermission.We undercut each other and I stopped behind Carlos.There were many mistakes and we couldn’t afford to do this, ”Leclerc told reporters. Ferrari failed, Charles failed to stop the team like Carlos did.

“I think the first decision was very clear and very wrong. And from that moment the mess started,” he added.

The most striking of all is the in ferrari They have already discussed the possibility of going directly to dry rubber before the race. In fact, Carlos he said he was “clear on this” before the trial and went for that technique.

Binotto: “This is a scenario we talked about”

“It’s a scenario we discussed before the race. The same thing has happened in the past, I think it’s included. hamilton sa Monaco (in 2016), which from the extreme dried up directly. It’s something we know and it’s part of the discussion we have and the judgment that is required during the race. ” Binotto clearly stated that the team bases its decisions on driver feedback: “Drivers prevail in that sense, because they have the feel of the tires and the track, how wet it is and the grip they have, it’s important.”

Sainz led the team. Leclerc, no. That yes, Carlos made it from an easier decision -making position, because he knew that all his rivals had stopped and if he stopped to put intermediates that approach would not help him that get places. Leclerc, however, had a more complex lead.

the second mistake

Then came the second mistake ferrari included Charleswhich is more noticeable. That brought him last third place. Sainz stopped to put on dry tires, risking victory with Pérez, who would stop on the next lap. However, Charles was sent a mixed message. They first called him to box, and when he was in the pit lane, they told him not to enter. There, he went crazy: “Shit, shit! Why did they do it? sabi.

He then found out Sainz was changing tires and he had to miss a few crucial seconds which caused him to lose third place definitely to Verstappen, and so some points that could be key for the World Cup with respect to the leader. Max stayed on track another lap, pitched and went ahead. Charles, if he waited another lap, would never lose his place in relation to Verstappen.

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“Obviously, my message is not clear, because they told me to get in but then stay out but I was already in pit lane and that’s where I basically left it all on the radio and screamed because I just can’t. I didn’t do anything and I know it’s over. “failed what Monegasque taught.

“We can’t afford to lose so many points like that. Not even first to second, first to fourth because after the first few mistakes we have done something again ”, Charles concluded.

Binotto assumes mistakes

For his part, Mattia Binotto, Ferrari’s boss, assumed the mistakes the team had made to lose the seemingly clear double and left Monaco without success.

“It’s frustrating. Finishing fourth means something went wrong with the decisions we made, so clearly we need to check it out,” the Italian told ‘Sky Sports F1’.

“I think we underestimated the intermission speed at that stage. Maybe we called Charles a lap earlier. Or maybe later we should have left it to the extreme and then went straight to dry conditions. These are errors that can be “We need to understand why they happen and that is a process that we will do”, added the engineer of Swiss origin.