BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Ferrari is satisfied it made the right call on Charles Leclerc's strategy at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after seeing him finish a distant fifth.
Leclerc gave himself a tough job to do on Saturday, crashing out of qualifying when pole position appeared to be there for the taking, and started from eighth. Unlike the others who had made it to Q3 and started ahead of him, Leclerc was on the medium tyre at the beginning of the race instead of the soft tyre.
On that compound he was the quickest man on the circuit in that stint, carving through the field and leading the race from lap 14 to 34 while others pitted before him.