Leclerc darts at his team and Sainz defends Ferrari

Two weeks ago, he finished the race with a cry of regret and in front of the televisions he could not hide his anger. He intoned the ‘mea culpa’ and admitted his mistake. And at Ferrari they reiterated that the failure was the pilot and not the car, in case there were doubts after a Monegasque radio gave rise to misinterpretations. This time, at Hungarian GP, charles leclerc he had a similar face, furious, but this time, for other reasons. As much as he admits his mistakes in France, he can’t cover up his team’s mistakes either. I know he did everything right to win the Hungaroring, but then 6th after a dubious strategy of ferrari. He sinks in the end with a hard rubber that doesn’t work and that’s the end of all his options.

“It turned out to be a disaster. We only did 5 or 6 laps because it was unbeatable. I felt good about the medium and I think I made it clear, but we made a different decision. And we have to study it.”, Charles Leclerc assured ‘DAZN F1’ about that hard tire, indicating that he did not agree to put that tire on. Ferrari had to change their mind and call Charles back to the pits at the end to fit a used soft tyre, leaving Leclerc in sixth place.

When asked about the difference between Red Bull and Ferrari, where Max Verstappen took the win after starting in 10th position, the Monegasque driver launched a strong phrase that is very understandable: “They chose the wheel”. That is to say, in some ways, it indicates that Ferrari did not choose well.

Sainz blames the temperature for the lack of rhythm

Carlos Sainz, who finished 41st, had mixed words. The Spaniard was hurt by entering the pits too early in his first stop, as did Russell despite George wearing soft rubber and him riding a medium tire that could have lasted longer. He was also hampered by two slow pit stops where he lost too much time. However, Carlos did not want to point the finger at the team and blame it on the lower temperature and opposite track conditions compared to Friday.

On a warmer Friday, the Ferrari was fastest, but after Saturday’s rain and the drop in temperature, the track was very different and here the Ferrari had no pace on any tire. “I think today maybe the strategy was the least of it. I think today we just didn’t have the speed on any compound tire, in any conditions. Obviously with these temperatures and the change from Friday it affected us a lot .We have worked a lot on all the compounds, on the balance of the car and it obviously cost us a lot throughout the race because there was no rhythm in any compound”, said Sainz.

“It looks like the half a second per lap that Red Bull gave us today is what we did on Friday with the heat, and obviously this cold has completely changed the situation and Red Bull gave us a good margin per lap we have to understand Also the Mercedes was faster. There is not much to say. It is also true that the first pit stop… well, and the second one, cost us some time in the race, which is something that needs to be studied , but apart from that there is no rhythm today”, the Spaniard added to ‘ DAZN F1 ‘.

Two bad pit stops hurt Sainz

However, with a small mouthful, Sainz recognized that his race might have been different if he had been able to pass Russell without that bad first pit stop, as he would have been the race leader with medium tires and more options. for success.

“The start was good even starting with the medium tire and I almost passed George (Russell) at turn 1. But then it was to go with the medium and him on this soft we didn’t have a better degradation In fact, it was even worse for us. And then, when he put the middle tire we weren’t doing anything bad but we weren’t doing what we expected. It was clear that now there was no rhythm and the first pit stop I think that in a quick pit stop he would have done the ‘overcut’ and would have started in front of him, that maybe the race would have been a little different” , he concluded.