Penalized Leclerc, the feeling is that in Miami the Rossa could have won the race but something went wrong. And Ferrari fans are still speechless
Norris won in Miami, against all odds: for the McLaren driver it was the first triumph in his career. Something magical, celebrated even by Vasseur, who went to the British pit with champagne to applaud the triumphant driver.
He forgot for a while, Ferrari’s team principal, what were the Rossa’s problems. That in such a race, with a Verstappen not at the top of his form, he could certainly have done more and dreamed of the second victory in the season, perhaps with Leclerc, after that of Sainz. And it is precisely the Monegasque who was the most disappointed at the end: from his words, in fact, according to what formulapassion.it writes, there is a suspicion that a mistake by the race wall took him out of the game.
Penalized Leclerc, the wrong strategy
The blame, it is explained, could be on the Plan B that Ferrari’s 16 heard on the radio, which forced him to anticipate the pit stop (placed on lap number 19), when his tires did not seem to have any degradation at all. Also because the strategy was different for everyone, with Verstappen stopping 4 laps later, Sainz completing another 8 laps and Norris, the winner, as many as 10. At that moment of the race Ferrari was in the game, an open fight, and instead then everything ended as we know.
“That something didn’t go right is told by the statements upon arrival,” one continues to read. And if Vasseur was nonetheless smiling because the Ferrari had in his opinion the right race pace, of the same opinion was not Leclerc who, in his thesis, found the perfect backing of teammate Sainz. In short, a Leclerc who, perhaps, with different choices could have perhaps dreamed of victory or of finishing ahead of Verstappen. Let’s say the problems were there. And that stings even more.
