1997 F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve has criticised Ferrari’s decision-making on the pit wall for Carlos Sainz’s P5 at the French Grand Prix. The Spaniard started the race 19th after taking an engine penalty, and was recovering up the order when a Safety Car was deployed for a crash involving team-mate Charles Leclerc. The team put him onto Mediums, but they suffered a slow stop and, when they released him, they did so straight into the path of Alex Albon, earning the 27-year-old a five-second penalty. There were question marks as to whether the Mediums could make it to the end, and the Scuderia eventually decided to call Sainz back in while he was in the middle of an...
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