Toto Wolff said Ferrari hamstrung themselves by how they used their tyres in Friday practice. HungarianGP 🇭🇺 F1
Ferrari made the surprising decision to switch Charles Leclerc onto the hard tyres during the race, despite a warning from the likes ofLeclerc met a similar fate, powerless to defend againstand George Russell on the hard rubber, leading to Ferrari calling him in for a third pit-stop and a switch to soft tyres.
Asked by Sky Sports F1 if Mercedes had been left scratching their heads when Ferrari put Leclerc onto the hard tyres, Wolff replied: “I think they had no option. They had only hard and soft left and for the soft it was too early. So only the hard.The decision certainly helped Mercedes’ cause though, Lewis Hamilton going from P7 on the grid to finish P2, while Russell crossed the line P3 to make it consecutive double podium results for the team.
“And I think in qualifying if we wouldn’t have failed the DRS yesterday, I think we would have had a fun fight at the front for victory.”
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