Following the entertaining Dutch Grand Prix, Ferrari are licking their wounds: the car was fast enough to secure a podium finish, but Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc both just missed out \u2013 fourth place for the Englishman, fifth for the Monegasque.<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton criticised Ferrari\u2019s strategy after the Zandvoort race: \u201cThat was frustrating. I had great pace, but I was on a different strategy with a different tyre. Leclerc was clearly struggling on the medium tyres, and I lost time there. To maximise our points haul as a team, we need to work together better. The decision should have been made earlier. I think that cost us a podium finish.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy aim is to lead Ferrari to the World Championship. If you want to win, you have to do things like that (Hamilton is referring to the position swap, M.B.). That\u2019s certainly what the others do. We definitely need to discuss this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc on the radio discussions: \u201cPah, those are just normal discussions during a race. It might look worse from the outside. When there isn\u2019t much happening on the track, people focus on that discussion. In the end, from my point of view, it wasn\u2019t the right lap to pit. The decision was made differently, and we\u2019ll analyse that together.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former German Formula 1 driver watched the action at Zandvoort in person for our colleagues at Sky. Commenting on Ferrari\u2019s approach, he said: \u201cFerrari provided a textbook example of how not to do things with Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton. Leclerc held Hamilton up for two or three laps too long. If they\u2019d let Lewis through earlier, they might even have finished ahead of Kimi Antonelli.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the entertaining Dutch Grand Prix, Ferrari are licking their wounds: the car was fast enough to secure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-870523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}