Leclerc slams Ferrari mistakes | 'We cannot do that... it hurts a lot'

Charles Leclerc slammed Ferrari's strategy mistakes at the Monaco GP after

plummeting from first to fourth, with the home favourite admitting his latest crushing setback "hurts a lot".

Leclerc, the fastest man all weekend, had looked primed to finally win in Monte Carlo after leading early on in tricky wet conditions before a flurry of incorrect and ultimately costly pit-stop calls from his team.

First, Ferrari did not react to Sergio Perez's pace on intermediates, and the Mexican, who eventually won the race, managed to undercut Leclerc. Then, Ferrari called in Carlos Sainz for his first stop onto slicks and also Leclerc at the same time, before then telling him to "stay out".

But it was too late, and Leclerc was forced to wait for Sainz's stop to finish and dropped to fourth behind Max Verstappen.

Leclerc was furious on team radio, shouting: "****! ****! Why? Why? What are you doing?!" And after missing out on even a podium in Monaco, he said after the race: "The season is long, but we cannot do that."

Speaking to Sky Sports F1 afterwards, Leclerc said he was not "let down" but criticised his team for the "wrong" calls.

"Sometimes mistakes can happen but there has been too many mistakes today overall," stressed Leclerc.

"Obviously in those conditions, you rely a little bit on what the team can see because you don't see what the others are doing with intermediates, with dry tyres.

"I have been asked questions about whether I wanted to go from the intermediates to the slicks and I said yes but not now, it will be a bit later on in the race.

"But I don't understand what made us change our mind and go on these intermediates, I got undercut and then got stuck behind Carlos.

"There has been a lot of mistakes and we can't