2023-07-08 23:09:59
Scuderia Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was clearly frustrated by an incident during Saturday’s British Grand Prix qualifying where team-mate Carlos Sainz was believed to have disobeyed Ferrari’s pitwall instructions. Sainz, who was at risk of missing out on qualifying at the end of Q1, decided to finish qualifying and score his last flying lap before more accidents and rain prevented him.
At the restart after a red flag due to Kevin Magnussen’s injury, he lined up in front of Leclerc in the pitlane, who should have been in front according to team rules. “In the pitlane we always try to get the cars out at the same time, which was expected, but it’s better to manage,” Leclerc told the media. “There’s a race to decide if I’m first or last, Carlos first or last, which one comes first,” he said. After that, the timing became very tight at the end, and I think it was very difficult to decide whether to overtake before the flag.” did it. However, Sainz then overtook his team-mate on the track, fearing low tire temperatures. At the time, Sainz questioned the team’s orders to let Leclerc pass, saying the risk of not making the cut was greater. “It’s a little unfair to ask me to do that,” Sainz complained at Ferrari’s pitwall. “Sacrifice the temperature of the tires? But anyway, it doesn’t matter. And I’m fourth and he’s third. I’m more dangerous.” Denied standing. “He’s not mad,” Sainz insisted. “It was a moment of pressure to get out of Q1 because of the checkered flag,” he said. “I was waiting at the last corner, but at some point I had to go for a lap, but this time Charles had the priority. “I had to lap in. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have been able to lap in.” He said he was responsible for the surrounding cars that didn’t respect him. “The problem is that the following started to overtake us. So if you gave all the cars a four second lead, you couldn’t lap in. Gentlemen’s agreements don’t exist anymore and have been completely forgotten. “Nice, Carlos, nice, overtaking at the last corner,” Leclerc reacted to being overtaken with a biting words, admitting that it sounded more hostile than he intended. “Of course the adrenaline is on in the car and at that point I didn’t know if it would work. The radio message was probably a little more aggressive than it should have been,” Leclerc said. “It’s not ideal. We’ll talk about it, but it didn’t affect me so it’s not a big deal.” . “I didn’t put together a perfect lap in Q3 because I lost grip at Turn 15, so a front row position was not possible today,” said Leclerc. “Although I don’t have the race trim data on hand because I missed FP2, I made the most of every session since then and am in a decent starting position so everything is possible tomorrow.” We can expect a battle and I think it will be a hard race.We will do our best to bring home a good result,” added Sainz.View this post on Instagram A post shared by FORMULA 1® (@f1)
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