Charles Leclerc says Ferrari were “expecting rain which never came” as his team made another blunder during F1 qualifying at the BrazilGP
“We still have the car but now we need to get on it and do everything good for the rest of the weekend."Ferrari: “Yes, you are the only one on inters.”Ferrari: “Box now, box now, box!”Ferrari: “Yes they did”Ferrari's sporting director Laurent Mekies said the team decided to split strategies for Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, and were gambling on rain with Leclerc.
“It was a difficult qualifying session as it was very intense for all the teams," Mekies explained."It’s the sort of qualifying where you need to make a lot of calls. "Some of the ones made today worked, others worked less. Altogether it’s a bit frustrating because we got both cars into Q3 and then we were confronted with a tough choice. On one hand you’ve got a track that is dry and there’s a golden rule that says you should go for that track if it is dry.
"On the other hand we were expecting heavy rain imminently, therefore at the end of the day we split our cars. You always know at that very moment when your cars are going out that depending on the exact timing of the rain you’re going to have one happy man and one unhappy man.
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