Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz 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.
However, Vasseur says that the other key issue was that the team didn’t get enough information on tyre degradation on Friday, when Charles Leclerc lost the whole of FP2 to a mechanical issue.
