Ferrari F1 boss Mattia Binotto responds to Nico Rosberg’s cutting 'F2/F3’ pitstop jibe

Carlos Sainz had been running third in Sunday’s grand prix at Zandvoort before a slow first pit stop ruined his race. Sainz was stationary in the pits for 12-seconds when Ferrari’s crew failed to have all four tyres ready and h𒀰e subsequently tumbled down the order.
The Spaniard recovered ꧃to fifth by the flag but was demoted to eighth after being hit with a post-race time penalty for an unsafe release when he stopped under the late Safety Car.
The drama prompted 2016 F1 wor🌼ld champion and Sky pundit R🦄osberg to suggest that F2 and F3 teams are better at pitstops and strategy than Ferrari.
"First, I think it is so easy to speak when you are outside [of the paddock]. It is easy to criticise,” Binotto said in response to Rosberg, who has been 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:banned from the F1 paddock because he is unvaccinated.
"But we will not change people: that is my answer to Rosberg. We have got gr🅠eat people and it has been proven that what is more important in sport is stability and that we make sure we are improving day-by-day and race-by-race.
"We have got great people in the team and I have 🅠no doubt on that. It takes years and experience for all teams to be at the front, aﷺnd I think there is no reason why it should be different for ourselves."

Binotto said the mishap was caused by a late call to bring Sainz in during his early battle with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton.
"Yes it was a very late call to react to Lewis [Hamilton] with Carl﷽os [Sainz]. It was too late a call," he explained.
"But I know as he [Rosberg] should know as well because he is an 🅺experienced driver, that it is a lot easier to address those type of problems rather than the performance.
"The perfor🌱mance is 🐈what counts the most today in my view.”
What did Rosberg say about Ferrari?
Rosberg was highly critical of Ferrari after a catalogue of high-profile mistakes and operational blunders made by the Italian outfit this year have allowed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Red Bull and Max Verstappen to romp clear in both world championship 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:standings.
The most cutting dig from Rosberg came when he said he thought F2 and F3 teams would do a ♒better job than Ferrari when faced with such scenarios.
"Oh my goodness," said Rosberg. "Mattia Binotto keeps saying 'No, no, we don't need to make any ch♔anges, everything is ﷽going well'.
“I mean when is the day coming? It's not possible. Even Formula 2 teams or Formula 𓃲3 teams do a better job at their strategy and pitstops than Ferrari.
"You go🐈 to the pits and there's no tyre ther𒁏e in a normal race? At some point they really need to start making some changes.”

After Ferrari let victory slip through their fingers at the Hungarian Grand Prix with questionable strategic calls, Binotto insisted there was 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:no need for changes within the team going into the summer break.
But Rosberg believes the time has come for Ferrari to make “fundamentaཧl” operational chang꧃es within the Maranello squad.
"Beyond that, also their car is just a little bit off the pace now, in the race especially,” he added. “We saw it at Spa, we saw it again here, they're starting to lose out. So they need to make sure they keep developing that car 𓃲in the right direction.
"One of the things that people often say is that Binotto is a technician. So sometimes you might suggest that you need a joint-leadership team of one being the technician and one being the business manager and ✃people manager.
"I don't know Binotto well enough, but in any case, he needs to be making some personnel changes there, because I ꧃feel it's just going wrong too much.
"When we're commentating we're just waiting for it to happen at the moment because we just know there's a next mistake coming from Ferrari very 🥃soon, and th𒀰at's not good, so they do need to make some fundamental changes in their personnel or how people are working there."

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