Monza victor Charles Leclerc admits that he feared McLaren's decision to undercut him with Lando Norris had cost him any hope of winning.
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Today's post-race press conference with Charles Leclerc, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.
It's been a very positive weekend in Monza, it confirmed that the car is strong and performs well on all kinds of circuits after the upgrades in Zandvoort.
We said prior to the event that the one-stop would be the quickest and that proved to be correct.
We crucially need a performance step to return to the front of the midfield, and our focus is on the analysis of the data collected here before going to Baku.
We could see some positive signs in today's performance by the team, even though the finishing positions, on paper, don't look much different from the previous races.
We have not performed at the level we did before the summer shutdown in the last two races.
Kevin Magnussen is set to miss the forthcoming Azerbaijan Grand Prix after notching up his 12th penalty points in as many races.
Looking at the cars finishing around us, it is tempting to say we could have tried a one-stop strategy, but we know our car is hard on tyres.