Marko Hanželic
The driver Ferrari will be three places behind at the start because he was in the way of the team's fast lap in Q2 AlphaTauri, Daniila Kvyata, which means it will Leclerc started only from the fourteenth starting position. Monaco was threatened with another penalty, which it would move towards the end of the "grid" if it did not comply with red flags at the end of Q1.
The commissioners eventually decided not to impose penalties on him, as Leclerc was in the ninth turn at the time of the start of the red flag and was no longer accelerating after braking. The same was decided in the case Kimi Räikönen, who got caught in a similar situation.
Explanation for Leclerc's punishment is otherwise as follows: »Driver of car no. 16 was informed by the team that race car no. 26 and to beware. At the same moment, he accelerated to turn 9, but slowed down when he spotted the car in front of him as it could affect his next fast lap. Driver of car no. 16 blamed poor visibility for his maneuver, but video and telemetry showed that the racer in car no. 26 obstacles in corners 9 and 10, " which, according to the Commissioners, proves that Leclerc saw They are crying in the rearview mirror.
At the end of the qualifiers, the head of the Ferrari team also showed up, Mattia binottowho said in disappointment: “We have to come to terms, the stopwatch never lies. We have not been competitive in both qualifiers so far and we are overtaken not only by the main competitors from yesterday, but also by the teams that were looking back at us yesterday. The improvements we prepared were almost unknown on the track. The fact is that our performances are not good enough for a team called Ferrari. "
