From what could have been the Scuderia’s second double so far in 2022 after the one in Bahrain to start the year, Ferrari ended up making a real mess with a useless strategy that its drivers advanced.
Just when everything seems to indicate that Ferrari cannot do any worse in terms of strategy in each grand prix weekend, the Scuderia goes and shows us that it is possible to get even worse the situation in which its two pilots find themselves immersed.
The Italians once again left much to be desired when it comes to tactical factor in the Hungarian GP, the last one before the summer break that will force the teams to stop the activity in their factories for practically a month, making them go on vacation with a bittersweet taste after having wasted a new opportunity to score more points than his rivals, who knows if even to take the victory.
“Something always seems to happen: reliability, bugs, whatever”
While Carlos Sainz supported the words of Mattia Binottowho assures that the poor performance of the F1-75 is what has caused the hard tires to not work and, therefore, that the strategy was wrong, Charles Leclerc has distanced himself from this vision of what happened.
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“I said I wanted to keep the medium tires as long as possible”sentenced the Monegasque Ferrari driver as soon as he got out of his car, assuring that from the wall they paid no attention to him despite the fact that he saw the situation differently from the track.
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“We have to understand why we went hard. I made it clear that he wanted to stick with the media as long as he could, but we stop early to get hardso we have to find out why, “added #16, already 80 points behind a Max Verstappen that no one seems to be able to stop.
“A race like this is frustrating and we have to improve together. Something always seems to happen: reliability, bugs, whatever. We have to be better at organize a weekendwe will try to use the few days we have to restart, but also to analyze and understand where we have to improve, because it is extremely important, “he added.
So, is Leclerc still holding out hope of being able to fight for the title after a new bump from Ferrari? “Before thinking about the championship, to be honest, I just want us to understand as a team what we have to do to improveOtherwise, it will be very difficult”, he concluded, knowing that neither the team nor he can afford a single mistake from here to Abu Dhabi in the final stretch.