Insiders wondered if a couple of Ferrari heads might be on the chopping block over Formula 1’s August break following another clear strategy blunder. Former F1 driver Ralf Schumacher said the decision to put Charles Leclerc on the hard tyre for his final stint of the Hungarian GP was “incomprehensible”. However, while the hard tyre looked like a bizarre choice to many, it emerges that Ferrari’s race strategy had actually been determined much earlier. “Ferrari had no option but the hard tyre,” Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said. “They only had hard and soft tyres left, and it was too early to put him on softs. Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto admitted having to use the hard tyre was “clearly not the right decision”.

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