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Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto denies the team sacrificed Sebastian Vettel for the benefit of Charles Leclerc.

Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto has defended his team’s call to bring Sebastian Vettel in after just eleven laps on the Hard tyre on his second stint.

Vettel had started the race on the Hard tyres, but compromised himself at the start by spinning at Turn 1. From there, he ran 22 laps for the first stint before pitting for another set of Hards.

Vettel had been just 1.5 seconds ahead of Leclerc at the time of this stop, as Leclerc had pitted on Lap 18 to ditch his Mediums. He’d wanted to stay out on track, saying he was happy with the tyres, but was told to come in on Lap 22. The timing of Vettel’s stop was disastrous for Sebastian, as he emerged behind Kimi Raikkonen and in a lot of traffic. However, it cleared Charles Leclerc to set off in pursuit of Daniel Ricciardo.

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