Haug: Strategy blunders are ‘part of Ferrari history’

Norbert Haug believes strategic “blunders” during races are part of Ferrari’s history, after the race lead was thrown away in Monaco.

The former Mercedes vice-president spoke after Charles Leclerc had the lead and a likely race victory taken away by a Ferrari strategy that saw the Monégasque driver become furious over team radio, admitting afterwards he had been left “hurt” by “too many mistakes” made by his team.

Leclerc had already been called into the pits to move on to intermediate tyres on a drying track, and a second call came for him to move on to slicks a few laps later.

His race engineer then told him to stay out but the move came too late, as Leclerc had already entered the pit lane, in a move that dropped him out of the race lead and even out of the podium places.

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Team-mate Carlos Sainz was praised after the race for taking his strategy into his own hands in Monaco, opting to stay out until he could swap to slick tyres – and felt he could have earned the win himself had he not been held up behind lapped traffic in the form of Nicholas Latifi on his out-lap.

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