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Ferrari acknowledges own mistakes: 'That would have been the winning strategy'
- GPblog.com
After a series of bad luck, this edition of the Monaco Grand Prix was supposed to be the turning point for Charles Leclerc, but a strategic slip-up by his team meant it was not to be. Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto explains where it went wrong in Monte Carlo and what the team should have done better to turn the race to its advantage.
The strategy chosen by Ferrari was clearly not the right one. The Italian stable reacted mainly to the choices of Red Bull Racing, who chose to bring in Sergio Perez first. After that moment, several wrong choices were made, Binotto explains at Corriere della Sera.
Strategic mistakes at Ferrari
What could Ferrari have done to still give Leclerc his first home victory? "The winning strategy would have been to stop Charles one lap after Perez, instead of two. Or to stay out with the rain tyres and switch to slicks," the team boss explains.
Moreover, he admits that he too was part of the strategic decisions. "Everything that happens in the team is my responsibility," Binotto acknowledges. He adds that his team made a series of wrong choices. "If someone finishes fourth while he was in the lead, something is wrong."
According to Binotto, Ferrari had everything it needed to take the race to itself, but the team failed to use those resources. The pace of the intermediates would have been underestimated by Ferrari, which lost valuable time by waiting for Leclerc's pit stop.