Leclerc wants “full view” of Ferrari’s Silverstone F1 strategy calls

When the safety car emerged late in the race, Ferrari kept leader Leclerc out on track on hard tyres, but pitted Carlos Sainz for softs – a decision mirrored by nearly everyone else in the field.

Team boss Mattia Binotto later confirmed that the squad didn’t want to double stack its cars and left Leclerc out as he had track position and fresher tyres than Sainz.

Leclerc, who had been carrying front wing damage since the start, was exposed on the hard tyres at the restart.

Despite a valiant defensive effort he lost places to Sainz, Sergio Perez and Lewis Hamilton as he tumbled down to fourth place.

After alighting from his car in parc ferme, Leclerc had a brief chat with Binotto before meeting the media.

“I don’t want to comment now, I want to discuss it and have the full view with the team what the reason was,” he said of the decision not to pit his car.

“Obviously I felt personally I was very strong in the first part of the race and that I lost a little bit of time - whether this would have changed the end result, I don’t think it would have, but just for the future we need to check everything.”

Asked if he’d said anything on the radio, he replied: "No, because it was obviously very late, and then the team said stay out. So I cannot come in obviously if we not aligned on that, and that was it.”

Charles Leclerc, Ferrari F1-75, battles with Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing RB18

Photo by: Glenn Dunbar / Motorsport Images

Leclerc said his post-race chat with Binotto was “just to try and cheer me up.” He added: “He tried, but then of course the disappointment is big for me.

"It’s been a rollercoaster of a race. The first lap I broke the front wing, and then I thought that was over, there was quite a lot of understeer.

“Then I