Ferrari strategy woes continue after Charles Leclerc radio confusion in Spanish GP
Leclerc endured a torrid weekend at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya as he w🎉as knocked out in Q1 for the first time since Monaco 2019.
H𓄧is race didn’t go much ♛better as he failed to recover to finish inside the points.
His afternoon was compromised by 𓆏an uninspiring strategy, starting on the hards and stopping after just 17 laps.
Eve🌌n on the soft tyre, Lecꦅlerc struggled to make much progress.
After struggling on the hards earlier in the race, Leclerc told Ferrari he wanted to go to the soft, as revealedꦯ by this radio exchange with engin🏅eer Xavier Padros.
Padros: “Box this lap for hard.”
Leclerc: “No, no, no, let’s go soft guys.”
Padros: “Copy that.”
Leclerc: “Box anyway?”
Padros: “Box now, box!”
Leclerc: “Box.”
Padros: “We are doing hard. We are doing hard.”
One criticism of Leclerc in the 🅰past w🍸as his failure to be direct over team radio with regards to strategy decisions.
That is one area teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz is very impressive at - dictating or questioning Ferrar🎐i’s strategy.
However, on this occas⛄ion🍨, the team ignored their star driver’s request.
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