Leclerc not happy with Sprint race result: ‘We didn’t maximise our points'
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Charles Leclerc was not satisfied with where he finished in Saturday's Sprint race. The Ferrari driver eventually finished only one place down compared to where he started today, but he lost three position thanks to his slow pit stop on Lap 2.
"As I said many times when we are not fast enough we need to maximise all our points and today we didn't so yes we are only speaking about one or two points but still it's one or two points and we need to make sure we maximise absolutely everything," Charles Leclerc told GPblog among others following the sprint race.
Another slow stop by Ferrari
Leclerc had to pit on Lap 2 for intermediates, and had a slow stop. "In an ideal world I would have definitely come in straight away. But I think we did the right choice, we would have lost too much time if I was pitting behind Carlos [Sainz] so I had no choice. It wasn't ideal of course but it's the way it is but what hurted us even more is the slow pit stop and this we need to look into it because it's been two races where we are struggling a bit more with the pit stops and we'll look into it," the Monegasque driver said about his stop.
Leclerc was also investigated for an unsafe release. "We are prepared for these kind of situations especially we are stopping so early in a race. I mean my engineers told me 'traffic, traffic' and I stayed on the right and then I also realised that it was a Williams so I let him. All in all it always looks very close but I was alright," Leclerc concluded.