Ferrari told ‘we are doing F1 here, not stirring spaghetti pots’

Getting it horribly wrong in not one but two pit stops at the Dutch GP, Tim Coronel has told Ferrari “we are doing Formula 1 here, not stirring spaghetti pots”.

Ferrari did not have the best of times at the Dutch Grand Prix, the F1-75 no match for the RB18 in the hands of Max Verstappen.

The Scuderia, though, compounded the situation as they made life a lot more difficult for Carlos Sainz who was trying to turn his P3 on the grid into a podium result.

Coming into the pits for his first stop of the afternoon, his mechanics found themselves one tyre short with the rear right missing.

He was stationary for 12.7s as they hunted it down, Sainz out of the podium tussle after that.

“Do they all speak Italian there?” Dutch driver Coronel pondered to Motorsport.com. “I think they all speak a different language.

“We all know that you need four tyres for a tyre change, right? The rear tyre wasn’t there yet.”

Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto called the pit stop a “mess” during the grand prix, revealing the strategists had made the call to pit Sainz too late for the mechanics to react in time.

He later told Sky Sports F1: “It was a too late call so we had no time to react. I’m pretty sure we can improve in the future. I’m less concerned of that than the pace of the car.”

Coronel says that doesn’t hold any weight with him.

“The mechanics still have to be ready,” he said. “Even if it is a last minute call, you still need to know what margins you have.”

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Adding to Sainz’s misery, he was later penalised for an unsafe release in his final pit stop of the day, the Spaniard released into the path of Fernando Alonso.

He fell from fifth to eighth in the classification.

Coronel added: “And then there was the unsafe release later on. We are doing Formula 1 here, not stirring spaghetti pots. Come on!”

Charles Leclerc at least had a better day for Ferrari, the driver finishing on the podium.

However, the pace of his F1-75 meant he lost a position to George Russell having started second but finishing third.

“I think Leclerc and Ferrari really did their best,” he concluded.

“You could see that they got along very well at the beginning. After that, they suffered too much from tyre degradation. For the first half of the race, Leclerc was simply second.

“Due to the degradation he had to stop earlier and with the new tyres he couldn’t quite make it out. But that third place was well deserved.”

Read more: The Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championship standings after the Dutch GP