Angry Charles Leclerc critical of Ferrari for making ‘too many mistakes’
Leclerc had dominated the opening stint in treacherous wet cond💛itions but was undercut by eventual winner Sergio Perez as the field switched from extreme wet tyres to intermediates.
Things went from bad to worse for Leclerc a few laps later when Ferrari double-stacked their cars when the track dried out enough for slicks. ⛦Leclerc had initially been told to pit before Ferrari changed their mind, but the call came too late, with Leclerc already comꦯmitted to coming in.
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The howler meant Leclerc dropped behind his teammate Carlos Sainz and main championಞship rival Max Verstappen to ♌fourth, where he finished.
"Let down is not the word, sometimes mistakes can hap🎀pen, but there have been too many mistakes today,” Leclerc said after the race.
"In those conditions you rely a little bit on what the team can see. I've been asked questions whether I wanted to go from extreme wets to the slicks, and I sai🌄d 🅘‘yes, but not now, later on in the race.’
“I don't understand what made us chan🌄ge our꧑ mind and go on the intermediates. We got undercut and I stopped behind Carlos. I mean, there's been a lot of mistakes and we cannot afford to do that.
"It's hard, as it's been th💃e other years here, so I'm getting used to getting back home disappointed.
"But we cannot do that, especially in the moment we are in now, ⛎when we are extremely strong, we need to take these opportunities. It’s not even first to second, it's first to fourth, because after the first mistakes we've done an💝other one.
"I🗹 love my team and I am 🍸sure I will come back stronger but it hurts a lot.”
Leclerc fumes over team radio at F1 Monaco GP
After💃 realising Ferrari’s error, Leclerc screamed over team radio: “Fuck෴, fuck! What are you doing?”
The Monegasque, who has now fallen nine points behind Verstappen in the championship, added: “I think the first one was a very clear decision, and a very wrong one, and from🅠 that moment onward the mess started.
“I don't know if it was panic. The last 🤡message that I had wasn't clear, because I was🍨 told to stay out, but I was already in the pit lane.
“And that's where I basi🤡cally let it all out on th👍e radio and screamed, because I knew I was done."
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