Ferrari was a 'bit scared' about tyre degradation in the BritishGP, which contributed to Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz tumbling to ninth and 10th in the race. F1
qualified fourth and fifth, but in Sunday’s race they tumbled down to ninth and 10th, not helped by the fact that both stopped before a safety car intervention that gave rivals a helping hand in the form of cheap stops.
The team suffered badly with degradation earlier in the season, and it's one of the characteristics of the car that it has been working hard to address. “Probably somewhere in our mind we had the first races of the season, where today [Sunday] we were far too conservative on the tyre management, and we didn't push enough.
“But I think where we lost the most is not at the stage of the race, it's that when we put the hard with Charles, I think we did something like 10 or 12 laps before the safety car and he had zero deg and he could have pushed much more.
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