Can a victory be considered a missed opportunity? The crazy Grand Prix of Silverstone proved that it is possible. The protagonist, once again, is the Ferrari. Which won with Carlos Sainzyes, but basically it didn’t allow Charles Leclerc to take full advantage of the opportunity to halve the gap from Max Verstappen in the standings. The ‘fault’ of the strategy of the final laps of the British Grand Prix, when Ferrari chose to bring back Sainz alone and not both drivers in the Safety Car regime.
The team principal Mattia Binotto tried to explain the reasons behind the Maranello strategy: “I am very happy for Sainz’s victory, the first after 15th Grand Prix. He had a great weekend. Today he was constant, he did his best. In the end, he won with merit and for us too, winning here at Silverstone was not a foregone conclusion. It was important for us to win again and we succeeded“, These are the words a Sky Sport F1. “Leclerc? It is a missed opportunity. But here too we have to be very satisfied. First, he was winning with a few laps to go. Ocon might have stopped somewhere else, sure, but Charles was doing fine. He was having a great race, also thinking about the start and how he fought. This aspect must also be seen. 4th place is deserved. Perhaps more could have been donebut the bitterness is the result of external circumstances. Double pit stop? It doesn’t fit, there was not enough space between the cars. Carlos would have lost further positions on who he was following. We had to decide to stop only one. Why Carlos? Because Charles was leading and keeping his lead, he had the cooler tires of the two. Carlos then would have found himself behind him in some way for the immediate restart and for protection in the first corners. We were convinced there would be greater degradation of the soft in the last laps, which would allow Charles to be able to make up and regain lost positions. So it didn’t work out, but let’s be rational. It’s not like we did random things at that moment“.
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