British Grand Prix: Charles Leclerc insists he has not lost confidence in Ferrari
Leclerc might not want Ferrari's decision-making to be a headline, but there is no way that it cannot be after what happened at Silverstone, where they made a series of calls that caused more than one observer to remark that it looked like they were actively trying to lose Leclerc the race and the championship.On Thursday, Leclerc arrived at Silverstone saying he needed a "perfect weekend" and a run of four good results to take him and Ferrari into the summer break.
That left Sainz in the lead, with Leclerc right behind, clearly faster, despite a front wing missing an endplate, costing him downforce, after a first-lap battle with the second Red Bull of Sergio Perez. Ferrari told Leclerc he was free to race. Then they asked Sainz to speed up to a specific lap time. And finally, when he could not do the pace requested, they ordered the drivers to swap, six laps after Leclerc's pit stop.
Following a huge crash at the start Zhou ended up stuck between the catch-fencing and the barrier - he was declared uninjured by medicsAfterwards, Leclerc did what he usually does in such situations and said he would need to analyse what happened with the team."The decisions we took were the right and proper ones at each time," he said. "Should we stop Charles at the safety car, maybe is the only one we may question.
"We were hoping for more tyre degradation on the soft to give maybe Charles a difficult three or four laps and then recover later on, but the soft did not degrade as we were hoping." "That's why I think we are managing well, we are getting on well, and today is a good example that we managed a good race. We had the two cars first and second, before the safety car."
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