Ferrari secured its second consecutive victory after profitable in the US Grand Prix on the Austin circuit, ending first on the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix with Carlos Sainz, however the likelihood for a second double win evaporated just some laps from the tip on account of an error made by Charles Leclerc as he exited the ultimate nook.
The Monegasque misplaced management of the rear finish, going off monitor and permitting a charging Lando Norris to move him in the beginning of the straight. From that second on, Charles Leclerc centered solely on bringing his SF-24 to the end line, contributing to recovering factors in opposition to McLaren within the Constructors’ Championship.
The ultimate consequence indicated that Lando Norris was sooner than the Monegasque driver within the final stint on laborious tires, however Frédéric Vasseur, Ferrari’s workforce principal, defined what led Charles Leclerc to lose all of the benefit he had over the McLaren rival earlier than making the decisive mistake on the final nook.
Based on the French supervisor, the lapped drivers in entrance of Charles (notably Lance Stroll, although he was by no means explicitly named) took too lengthy to respect the blue flags correctly displayed by the monitor marshals and let the Ferrari driver move. This led to a lack of tire temperature within the SF-24, which proved essential within the misplaced battle in opposition to Lando Norris just some kilometers later.
Frederic Vasseur pointed fingers at Franco Colapinto, Liam Lawson, and Lance Stroll for ignoring blue flags, which finally proved expensive for the Maranello workforce: “[Leclerc] misplaced three or 4 seconds into the visitors with some idiots,” the French supervisor defined in an interview for Sky Sports activities F1 on the finish of the Mexican Grand Prix – “That Norris was finally sooner than Leclerc is an evaluation made by others, and I don’t agree. Norris got here again, Charles pushed a bit an excessive amount of. Maybe he misplaced additionally a little bit little bit of temperature within the tyres when he was with these guys. Actually, they should respect the blue flag and I don’t perceive why the FIA didn’t give them a penalty. We had 4 seconds on Norris. And after the three guys, we had been 1.2 or 1.3 forward.”
Throughout his post-race dialogue with choose media, the Ferrari workforce principal elaborated on his ideas: “Charles was not comfortable [Saturday] with P3 or P4, however nonetheless as we speak he did a superb race. I’m a bit upset with the story with the blue flag, it value us P2. However on the finish of the day, it’s like it’s, however we’ve got to be centered now on the subsequent one and overlook this one. If you do 5 corners when the man has a strong blue, it’s not unlucky. It’s a mistake of the man.” – the French supervisor identified.
In abstract, with out the conduct deemed incorrect by the lapped drivers, Charles Leclerc would have had the chance to provide Ferrari a second consecutive one-two end, this time on the 4.304-kilometre Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico Metropolis, though McLaren confirmed barely higher tempo on the laborious tires within the final stint.
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