Athletistic/ Formula 1. Mattia Binotto and company said before the Hungarian Grand Prix that they were ready to take ten wins in the remaining ten stages, but at the Hungaroring they framed Leclerc and Sainz.

Maybe it’s time for Ferrari to think about changing leaders and strategists? Former Formula 1 driver Ralf Schumacher once expressed the idea that with such mistakes Binotto can quickly leave the job at Maranello. The Italian team does not convert its undeniable advantage over its competitors in points in the general classification and the constructors’ championship, but at close range does not want to admit mistakes.

During the previous race, Binotto had not hesitated to publicly point out to his best driver, Charles Leclerc, his mistake. There, the Mogegasque made a difficult turn, but lost control. And then the driver grabbed the accelerator pedal and he couldn’t resume the race.

In Hungary, Ferrari simply ruined the whole race for Leclerc. As the driver confidently started first and gradually picked up the pace, moving away from Max Verstappen, the team decided to call Charles for a pit stop, but that wouldn’t have been a problem if it had been done in time and if the strategists had not thought to switch to hard tires. The problem is that with the exact same tyres, Alpin didn’t rush anything, but Ferrari didn’t look at the other teams and did it their own way. As a result, Max Verstappen passed Leclerc once, then the Dutch driver turned around on the track, but he quickly steered the car in the right direction and passed Leclerc a second time, which just goes to show how it was tough for Charles on hard tyres.

“I said that I wanted to stay in medium as long as possible. You have to understand why we wanted to go too hard, because I clearly said that I wanted to stay in medium as long as possible. But we bet very early “hard”. .

On “medium”, the pace was very good. On “hard” we of course lost all speed. We made the pit stop more than the others, missed 20 seconds. In addition, for five or six laps we lost a second from the circle – a big delay accumulated.

The feelings on the “medium” were very good, honestly. On soft, yes, there was some graininess, but we had to get into the pits quite early, because it was incredibly difficult to fly on hard, and we only had soft. At the end of the race, we encountered some graininess, but that didn’t surprise me, we expected it.
I think the second segment should have been lengthened. The first time we stopped in time and made the right choice. I didn’t really understand why we shortened the second segment and went hard”, Leclerc did not hide his disappointment.

However, Binotto assured that it was a bad rhythm, not a strategy.

“Everyone expected a different result, and we are the first. The main thing is that the car didn’t perform as we expected. We can talk a lot about it, but the basic problem was the speed Carlos had the same strategy as Hamilton, but Lewis finished second, although he started behind Today the car didn’t work, and when the car doesn’t work, you can put whatever tires you want. , but it won’t work.

There was no reason to think hard tires would be so slow. If we had everything in order with the car, we wouldn’t be discussing the tyres. We’ll analyze why the car didn’t have the right pace and then we’ll analyze the strategy. For the first time our car was not fast enough in terms of race pace. We have to analyze it,” summed up the boss of Ferrari.

Well, at this rate, Binotto will soon run out of excuses, but that hasn’t helped matters. Charles Leclerc is 80 points behind Verstappen for the summer break. And a lot of those “Ferrari” glasses just gave away. Alas.

Yahya Gasanov, Athletistic