{"id":110947,"date":"2025-09-03T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110947\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:11:07","slug":"ferrari-overruled-leclercs-call-not-to-pit-immediately-before-antonelli-collision-%c2%b7-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110947\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari overruled Leclerc&#8217;s call not to pit immediately before Antonelli collision \u00b7 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/charles-leclerc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Leclerc<\/a> retired from the Dutch Grand Prix when he was hit by Andrea Kimi Antonelli shortly after the pair made their second pit stops.<\/p>\n<p>But Leclerc could have avoided the collision had Ferrari not overruled his call not to react to Antonelli\u2019s earlier pit stop.<\/p>\n<p>Leclerc was running fifth when Antonelli made his second pit stop on lap 40. The pair had been separated by just over two seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Once Antonelli pitted, Ferrari knew they likely only had one lap to bring Leclerc in and get him back out ahead before the Mercedes driver\u2019s fresher tyres made that impossible. Leclerc was quick to tell them he didn\u2019t want to react.<\/p>\n<p>When his race engineer Bryan Bozzi told him Antonelli had pitted, Leclerc immediately replied: \u201cOkay, I think we stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you mean to stay out?\u201d Bozzi checked. \u201cYeah, let\u2019s stay out,\u201d Leclerc replied. \u201cLet\u2019s try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli\u2019s pit stop dropped him behind his team mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/george-russell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Russell<\/a> and Alexander Albon to eighth place. With 32 laps still remaining, Leclerc clearly preferred his chances of holding on to the position he\u2019d taken by muscling past Russell earlier on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-above-ad\">Advert | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/contribute-racefans\/racefans-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However Bozzi told Leclerc that Ferrari were concerned about the threat from Antonelli and wanted to secure their position ahead of him. \u201cBox, Charles box, we want to cover Antonelli,\u201d he told Leclerc. The call came at the exit of turn 12, leaving little time for further discussion. Leclerc came in.<\/p>\n<p>He rejoined ahead of Antonelli but the Mercedes driver spied an opportunity to pass him at the Hugenholzbocht. Antonelli dived for the inside but as momentum carried him up the steeply-banked corner he was unable to avoid hitting Leclerc, inflicting race-ending damage on the Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards Leclerc reminded the team he hadn\u2019t wanted to pit in the first place. \u201cI think that was unnecessary,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, we can never know what happened but honestly the tyres felt good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miss nothing from RaceFans<\/p>\n<p>Get a daily email with all our latest stories &#8211; and nothing else. No marketing, no ads. Sign up here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-above-ad\">Advert | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/contribute-racefans\/racefans-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2025 Dutch Grand Prix<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/tag\/2025-dutch-grand-prix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Browse all 2025 Dutch Grand Prix articles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc retired from the Dutch Grand Prix when he was hit by Andrea Kimi Antonelli shortly after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[45552,1665,1687,831,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-110947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-2025-dutch-grand-prix","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}