Red came out everywhere over the Munich weekend
Charles Leclerc and Ferrari have been the strongest in Monaco since Friday and what happened at the start of the GP has even leveled even more so the road to the Monegasque’s first home success. The red flag, in fact, allowed the drivers to change tires, thus removing the last unknown that remained in the race after the standing start.
Thanks to the red flag, Ferrari also ‘recovered’ Carlos Sainz, who had a puncture and had fallen to the back of the group after contact in Turn-1 with Oscar Piastri. The team principal of McLaren Andrea Stella He commented on what happened like this: “We agree with the decision made to restore the classification using the Safety Car line as a reference. Zhou had not crossed the first sector when the red flag was shown and using micro-sectors to determine the ranking is incorrect. Sainz was luckythus earned a podium, not only for this decision, but also for the impediment that Albon escaped in Qualifying, a situation that was evaluated differently compared to Imola”. Stella, therefore, does not believe that there are many differences between what happened between Piastri and Magnussen in Imola and between Sainz and Albon in Monaco. Magnussen could not pass the cut, but Albon could, and it was the Williams driver himself who did not believe that Sainz was guilty during the debate with the Commissioners.
Piastri’s McLaren had suffered damage not indifferent after the contact with Sainz: “We had lost twenty points of load which in Monaco is equivalent to half a second. As a result of the repairs we were able to carry out we recovered 10 of them and in the end the damage was not a factor in the final result” Stella added.
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