Charles Leclerc delivered an expletive-filled rant on crew radio after the Las Vegas Grand Prix, believing he was too respectful of teammate Carlos Sainz as he ended up lacking out on a podium end.
Sainz was operating forward of Leclerc previous to the second spherical of pit stops however then had to surrender a place to his teammate, earlier than utilizing an undercut to re-pass the Monegasque driver. Leclerc was informed Sainz had been knowledgeable to not overtake him as he was rising from the pits however was handed two corners later, and when requested to select up rubber post-race and congratulated for doing his job post-race, Leclerc was clearly indignant.
“Sure, no matter you need as all the time,” Leclerc stated in response to race engineer Bryan Bozzi. “Yeah I did my job, however being good f***s me over all of the f***ing time, all of the f***ing time. It’s not even being good, it’s simply being respectful. I do know I have to shut up however at one level it’s all the time the identical. Oh my f***ing God.”
When then reminded to select up rubber once more, Leclerc replied: “Yeah, yeah, f***ing pick-up what the f**ok you need.
“S**t, s**t, s**t, and the radio is on – I’m sorry, that was on me.”
Explaining the scenario from his aspect, Sainz believes Ferrari dealt with the second pit cease section poorly that led to him dropping important time when he had been operating forward of Leclerc.
“I feel he grained the medium tires and I managed to get forward earlier than the pit cease on mediums,” Sainz stated. “Then I did grain my hards and he was coming fast behind me, and I used to be anticipating what was going to be a scenario, as a result of Lewis [Hamilton] was proper behind Charles on the time, and I used to be fairly certain the crew was going to ask me to let Charles by as a result of he was faster on the time.
“As I used to be on grained tires, I requested the crew two or thrice to field me, to get me out of the best way, and get me a brand new set of hards to ensure that I wasn’t dropping a variety of race time by having to let Charles by after which having to battle Lewis on the identical time.
“For some cause we didn’t field and I ended up having to let Charles by a lap later than was deliberate and dropping a variety of race time. And by the point I used to be going to field, then we didn’t even field.
“So I suppose he’s not completely happy, however I’m additionally not proud of the best way issues had been dealt with on the time. I feel nobody’s completely happy right now within the crew as a result of all of us anticipated a bit extra. I’m on the rostrum, so a minimum of I acquired that for the crew. However on the identical time, I don’t assume we might have completed a lot better than P3 and P4 right now.”
