Why did Ferrari pit Carlos Sainz instead of race leader Charles Leclerc under the late Safety Car? Ferrari F1 boss Mattia Binotto has explained their thinking and defended his team's BritishGP strategy ⤵️
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"So why then by deciding to stop one did we stop Carlos? Because Charles had the track position and was leading, so he would have remained the leader of the race. Because his tyres were fresher than the ones of Carlos, I think six or seven laps less than the ones of Carlos had and in better shape. “I think the decision we took was the right one, the proper one, each single time. Should we have stopped at the Safety Car is maybe the only one we are questioning, I think.
At the Safety Car restart, Sainz was told to drop 10 car lengths behind Leclerc - to give Leclerc a bigger protective buffer to those on soft tyres - but Sainz defied the instructions as he asked Ferrari to “stop inventing”.“Honestly, I think today the team managed the race really well, I have nothing [bad] to say,” he said.
“So my decision was to get into the lead as soon as possible, I knew I could be in the lead before Turn 6 with the grip I had on the softs and go from there and try not to affect his race by getting into the lead.Binotto later admitted that Sainz was right to ignore the order.
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