168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc was left perplexed by an interesting radio message from his Ferrari team during sprint qualifying at the F1 Chinese Grand Prix.

At the end of SQ2, Leclerc was told to concede track position to Ferrari teammate168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton during their out laps at the end of SQ2.

Leclerc obliged but📖 appeared to be surprised by the instruction.

The radio exchange played out as follows…

Bryan Bozzi [Leclerc’s race engineer]: “Can we swap the cars please?”

Leclerc: "Swap the cars now?

Bozzi: “Yes please.”

Leclerc: “Yes, I’ll do it, but we’ve never done that. And I’m a bit in the s*** as well,✤ so…”

The radio exchange was played🐭 out during Sky Sports 🐼F1’s live coverage of the sprint qualifying session.

“There was four tenths of a second between the two Ferrari drivers. It’s a bit late t🦋o swap them, when they’re out on the track,” Sky Sports F1 commentator David Croft said.

To which Martin Brundle replied: “You have to assume that means Lewis has some 🌞kind of priority this weekend, which is what happened at Mercedes. They flip-flopped.”

Croft added: “That’s right, they took🌠 it in turns.”

Brundle then said: “It seems as if Leclerc might have misಌsed that email.”

Were tyres behind the team order?

Former Aston Martin F1 strategist Bernie Coꦰllins suggested that tyres may have influenced Ferrari’s decision.

“I think Hamilton was in a slightly better posit♕ion with his tyres, and wanted to push on durin☂g his slow lap,” Collins explained.

“Leclerc was trying to opeꦓn a gap, trying to cool everything down, and that’s why they switched.”

Croft asked:🧜 “So Lewis would 🌳have been compromised if he stayed behind?”

Collins concluded: “Exactly.”

Brundle then addﷺed: “It still seemed to annoy Charles quite a lot. He said he wasn’t in a good place, he meant traffic-wise.”

Sev𝐆en-time world champion Hamilton went on to claim pole position for the sprint race, withꦡ Leclerc fourth on the grid in Shanghai.