News Details

Sainz defends decision to overrule Ferrari order

Carlos Sainz says Ferrari "perfectly" executed its team strategy in the British Grand Prix despite his rejection at one crucial point of the race of a specific instruction from the Scuderia pitwall. Sainz scored his maiden F1 win at Silverstone after a flawless drive that concluded with a frantic four-way battle between himself, Red Bull's Sergio Perez, Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and teammate Charles Leclerc. The latter was leading the race as it entered its final stage and appeared on course to win when a late safety car reset everyone's chances. As the race was neutralized, Ferrari feared it would lose out, like in Monaco, if it double-stacked its drivers. It therefore opted to...
Full Story »
1y ago from F1i.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Grosjean fires shot at Haas as he defends Schumacher,...

Former Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean has told Haas driver Mick...
1y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

McLaren boss defends himself after making Ricciardo...

The relationship between McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown and Daniel...
1y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

Sainz: I'm not going to lie, first win a relief

Carlos Sainz revealed that winning the first Formula 1 race of his career...
1y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Russell: I want my first podium at Silverstone to be...

Englishman Nigel Mansell used to say that racing in front of the British...
1y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Abel ends Indy 500 entry hopes, cites funding as cause

Abel Motorsports will not be fielding a car in this year’s Indianapolis...

American flag livery returns for AJ Foyt Indy 500 entry

AJ Foyt Racing announced Wednesday that it is bringing its popular...

Chevrolet confirms it had no knowledge of Team Penske...

Just over a week has passed since IndyCar announced the disqualification...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal lining up summer move for 17-goal ace, 65m...

Arsenal are hoping to improve their attacking options this summer and they...
4h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Man United join race to sign Arsenal-linked attacker...

Manchester United are looking to bring in a quality attacker and they are...
4h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.