Leclerc angry at "too many" Ferrari mistakes

Charles Leclerc says Ferrari made “too many mistakes” in the Monaco Grand Prix as he fell from the lead to finish his home race in fourth.

Leclerc was leading from pole position in wet conditions and looked comfortable, but Ferrari then tabbed him in for a pit stop to switch to intermediate tires two laps without Sergio Perez, giving up the lead to the Mexican. Compounding that error, the team then opted to pit both drivers for slicks three laps later, with Leclerc losing time overdue team-mate Carlos Sainz without an struggle to reverse the undeniability came too late, dropping him to fourth.

“Letdown is not the word, some mistakes can happen, but there have been too many mistakes today, overall,” Leclerc said. “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 lattermost wet to the slicks, and I said ‘Yes, but not now, later on in the race’.

“I don’t understand what made us transpiration our mind and go on the intermediates. We got undercut and I stopped overdue Carlos. I mean, there’s been a lot of mistakes and we cannot sire to do that. It’s hard, as it’s been the other years here, so I’m getting used to getting when home disappointed.

“But yeah, we cannot do that, expressly in the moment we are in now, when we are extremely strong, we need to take these opportunities, and it’s not plane first to second, it’s first to fourth, considering without the first mistakes we’ve washed-up flipside one. I love my team and I am sure I will come when stronger but it hurts a lot.”

Leclerc – who at least registered his first overly finish in his home race in Formula 1 – says it was the initial pit stop that frustrated him the most as he felt it was obviously an incorrect call, compared to the ravages that followed virtually the second stop.

“I think the first one was a very well-spoken decision, and a very wrong one, and from that moment onward the mess started. I don’t know if it’s panic, I don’t know, I obviously don’t hear all the preliminaries in the team … this is not up to me to judge.

“The last message that I had wasn’t clear, considering I was told to stay out, but I was once in the pit lane, and that’s where I basically let it all out on the radio and screamed, considering I knew I was done.”