“No regrets” for Leclerc or Ferrari over Turkey F1 tyre strategy

With be conscious prerequisites at Istanbul no longer drying up sufficient to be good for slicks, leaders Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen elected to pit round lap 36 for fresh inters to head attempting to procure them by to the tip.

But Leclerc, who had been shadowing Verstappen prior to the pitstops, selected to protect out and originally it regarded he had executed the beautiful ingredient as his rivals didn’t pack up on him.

Nonetheless, because the be conscious dried out, Leclerc began to suffer increasingly more more because the tyre performance dropped off – and in the tip he became compelled to pit on lap 47 having good misplaced the consequence in Bottas.

Falling reduction in the reduction of his predominant rivals, Leclerc struggled with graining on the unique inters and then misplaced the remaining podium region to Sergio Perez earlier than coming dwelling fourth.

Even supposing a top-three region had been up for grabs, Leclerc acknowledged he became entirely pleased with Ferrari‘s tactics, and felt that it became no longer in truth powerful of of endeavor to protect out.

“I had the total data I wished on the 2nd, and as soon as Valtteri pitted [from the lead], I became asking moderately a cramped on the radio, ‘k what are the lap occasions on the unique inters?’ explained Leclerc.

“For the first 5/six laps we were in truth more or much less in accordance with the dash. So for me it became resolute that it became no longer good rolling the dice.

“I maintain I became moderately, and we were all, assured with that need. But it indubitably became a cramped of a weird and wonderful scuttle with the unique inters for six or seven laps. They’d delight in a graining part, and whilst you went by the graining part then you definately were discovering a style of dash again.

“That is continuously precisely what took region. So no regrets on my aspect.”

Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF21, arrives on the grid

Picture by: Steven Tee / Motorsport Photos

Ferrari crew important Mattia Binotto added that his crew’s resolution to abet Leclerc out had been formed by its review of Carlos Sainz’s used rubber when he stopped for imprint unique tyres himself.

Binotto acknowledged that there had been no doubts that the used inters would web to the tip without failing, nonetheless the for sure uncertainty became whether or no longer they’d invent as mighty as unique rubber.

“Obviously we had the pit stop executed with Carlos, and we knew how powerful rubber became left on his tyres at that 2nd,” acknowledged Binotto. “Shining that facts, we believed that we might perhaps perhaps maybe additionally enjoy executed the scuttle, at least in terms of being pick up in that respect.

“So we knew that in terms of security, the total prerequisites were there. Then it became a matter of performance. As Charles acknowledged, on the time when we stayed out, the performance became k. But then the be conscious modified, it became drier, and we had to scheme in.”

As soon as the dash on the feeble inters had gone, Leclerc felt that there became no abet to staying out as he would enjoy in the kill misplaced out to the chasing vehicles anyway.

“It might perhaps maybe perhaps maybe had been very, very refined without stopping to be merely,” he acknowledged. “The rear tyres were very refined to tackle in the final four laps earlier than my pit stop, and that is the reason why we did the pit stop in truth.

“I struggled so much with rear locking and that pushed me to assemble some errors. I don’t think [we would have come home] better than where we executed with the pitstop.”