MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- Ferrari team principal, Mattia Binotto, has admitted Charles Leclerc's failure to make it out of the first session of qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix was down to a misjudgement on the pit wall.
Leclerc qualified 16th for Sunday's race (but will start 15th thanks to Antonio Giovinazzi's grid penalty) after missing the cut for Q2 by just 0.052s. The Ferrari was comfortably quick enough to make it all the way through to the top-ten shootout in qualifying, but the team opted not to send him out for a second attempt in Q1 to make sure he made the cut for Q2.