Ferrari reviewing 'processes' after Leclerc Q3 tyre blunder

Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto says the Italian outfit is reviewing the process that led to its wrong decision to fit Charles Leclerc's car with the intermediate tyre in Q3 in Brazil.

In last Friday's qualifying session at Interlagos, when the remaining ten car lined up in the pit lane ahead of the final shootout, Leclerc was the only driver shod with Pirelli's semi-wet compound.

All of the Monegasque's rivals - even teammate Carlos Sainz - had opted for the soft rubber, leaving the Ferrari driver as the odd man out.

The Scuderia's ill-fated strategic decision proved to be another gaffe in a long lost of mistakes made by the Italian outfit this season, and which have costed the team dearly.

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Realizing its mistake, Ferrari then added insult to injury when it ordered Leclerc to pit just as he was set to begin his first timed flyer, the Monegasque responding to his crew over the radio with a sarcastic "beautiful!"

Thereafter, Leclerc's hopes of fighting for pole were ruined by a red flag triggered by George Russel's stricken Mercedes.

Ferrari initially defended its tyre choice, arguing that its weather radar had indicated that rain was just a minute away.

"Obviously, when you’ve got such weather conditions, it’s always a lottery and the fact that Kevin [Magnussen] was on pole or [Lewis] Hamilton eighth on the grid or Perez ninth is proving that it is a lottery," said Binotto after last Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix.

"But we made it [the decision] wrong, because he was the only one on the intermediate at the time and not on slicks."

But beyond the ill-informed decision itself, Ferrari's focus is the process by which it had been chosen.

"Those type of mistakes in such a lottery situation may always happen and they could also turn into the right decision as well because it is only a weather change maybe a minute after what happened," he said.

"But what I am looking at together with the team is what were the processes that brought us to such a decision which I think is more important than the decision itself and was it right or wrong.

"Why are we doing that when others didn’t?"

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