Charles Leclerc has “no bad feelings” towards Lewis Hamilton after team orders saga

C൲harles Leclerc gives his view on the Ferrari team orders saga in Miam🌌i

Charles Leclerc
Charles Leclerc

Charles Leclerc has called on Ferrari to do “better” after a messy race at the F1 Miami Grand Prix.

Ferrari struggled for pace at the Miami International Autodrome as Leclerc finished seventh, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton finished one place behind in eighth.

It wasn’t a straightforward race🌸 for Ferrari as they were engulfe👍d in a team orders saga.

At the time, Hamilton was run🅘ning on medium tyres and loꦗoked quicker than Leclerc, who was on the hards.

Ferrari waited several laps before deciding to impose team orders oജn Lec🍌lerc.

By the time Leclerc mജoved over, H꧟amilton’s tyres were past their best.

This meant that Leclerc was now being held up by his teammate, costing both drivers more time in their pursuit of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kimi Antonelli.

The saga led to a sassy team radio message from Ha൩milton, who asked race engineer Riccardo Adami whether h🉐e should also let Carlos Sꦺainz through in the closing laps.

Speaking after the race in Miami, where  are in the paddock, Leclerc discussed the team orders f🥃iasco.

“Most of the time I say something,🌱 today I don’t think I’ll say anything,” Leclerc said.

“I think the story is going to be big enough already. We need to do better, that’s for sure. Today was not idealꦚ and was far from maximising our potential, but we’ve got to regroup as a team and be better.”

Leclerc felt that team orders should have been discu🔴ssed more before moving over for Hamilton on Lap ๊39.

“I think we s🎃hould have discussed a little bit more before doing the swap, because you’re trying to go to the end with those tyres,” Leclerc explained.

“I’m trying to do a good job with my tyres and then everything is tricky. I did not ꦇexpect Carlos to be so close. All of this made the situation a bit trickier, but I think there’s plenty for us to look at. As I said, we need to do a step and we need to be robust enough that whenever we find ourselves in those situations, we do better.”

“No bad feelings with Lewis”

Leclerc was keen to make clear that he had no issue ♓with Hamilton and 𓆏his approach.

Leclerc conceded that he would have done the same as Hamilton in wanting to push - and get paꦺst - if he was in that position. 

“Not really, because I knew Lewis was on a medium, so if anything, he would struggle a bit more to go to the end than me, so ꩵwe had to take care of tyres,” Leclerc added.

“But I understand as well that 🍎he wanted to try and do something different, so I appreciate that. I would have done the same thing as if I was him and trying to be a bit more aggressive with the medium tyres. There’s no bad feelings with Lewis, not at all.

“I understand that he wants to try and optimise as m💙uch as I want to try and optimise the car potential. The car potential is just this, which is frustrating.”

Leclerc confirmed he♚’s not had the chance to speak to Hamilton after the race.

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