Charles Leclerc He went from thinking big, with an unthinkable pole in Hungary Before the two McLaren and a good exit that allowed him to lead against Pastri, to see how he could be the first triumph of the year for Ferrari.
Therefore, in full career, Leclerc tried to communicate the team that was not satisfied with any decision made, speaking in key, to prevent anyone from understanding him. What was trying to hide?
“I can feel what we have discussed before the race. We need to talk about discussing these things before doing them,” He said by radio, angry, frustrated because the triumph escaped. And it continued: “We are going to lose this race for these things. We are wasting a lot of time.”
And after the race, Charles Leclerc changed his version and apologized for his radio comments, ensuring that everything was due to a problem in the red car chassis.
Leclerc changed its version after the race
“Obviously in the car I didn't have all the information, but now. From Vuelta 40 we had a problem in the chassis. From that moment I was a passenger, I couldn't do anything else. I had a lot of frustration in the car because I thought the problem was derived from another choice made in the car, but it was not so,”said 'Il Principo'. However, George Russell, who fought on the track with Leclerc and snatched the third position from the ferrarist pilot, does not believe the new version of Charles and did not hesitate to launch an accusation to the red team.
Russell does not believe it and points to another theory
According to George Russell, Ferrari was driving a car at the beginning of the race that, if so until the end of it, could have risk having been declared illegal and receiving a disqualification for an excess wear of the plates that the F1 carry on the ground (with limited wear for safety in their touch against the asphalt).
“I saw how slow I was driving. The only thing that occurs to us is that they had put the car too low and needed to increase the pressure of the tires for the last stint (when Leclerc stopped for the second time). They also used an engine mode that made the engine slower at the end of the line, just where the ground tables are wearing most,” he told 'Sky Sports', without tap.
“Chassis problem? Obviously, Leclerc is not going to tell you that they were on the verge of being illegal. That is the only thing that occurs to us based on the times by return and motor mode they were using, and things like that “the Mercedes British added.
The rear suspension came for that
What could be seen is that Ferrari made his second stop at Boxes with Leclerc at a time when Charles was in full battle for the victory and rolling quickly, and from there, everything changed. From the beginning of his posterior batch, he began to roll 2 seconds slower, in striking way, and the balance of the car seemed completely different, judging by Charles's words. Besides, Leclerc spoke in keysuggesting that I wanted to hide something.
So, One of Mercedes's theories is that Ferrari had discovered that they were at the limit of plate wear and that, if they continued, they could be disqualified. Therefore, according to Russell, they tried Avoid it from that second stop, putting the Leclerc car some wheels with higher pressure. That would reduce its tire deformation, and therefore, would away the bottom of the asphalt car, an idea that gains weight, according to Russell, to see that Leclerc reduced the speed at the end of line to try to make the car stick less to the ground.
If true, a greater pressure from the tires, I would have taken them out of the correct work window. And therefore, Charles's performance would have been lower. And it was.
It must be remembered that Ferrari has already suffered the disqualification of Lewis Hamilton after China's race for months for having worn the ground of the car from the car more than allowed. After that, it was said that Ferrari was not yielding because the car should be lifted too much, losing performance, to the Wait for the arrival of a new rear suspension that solved these problems.
That rear suspension He arrived in Belgium, but there, the red car was not competitive. In Hungary, Leclerc did fly over a return with pole, but there is doubt if he did it with a car too low and then face the race (vehicle adjustments cannot be touched from 'qualy' to Sunday race).
What happened exactly? Only in Ferrari they know. But if it is a new problem of wear of the background, it will be necessary to see if the Maranello team is forced to lift its car in the next races, even if it involves losing benefits. The rear suspension came to precisely be able to lower the height of the car with respect to the asphalt.
