Vasseur on Ferrari taking too long to swap: 'We did what we had to'

Charles Leclerc revealed that whilst the radio doesn't always paint a clear picture of the team's dynamics, such was not the case in the Miami Grand Prix.

As for his Ferrari teammate Lewis Hamilton, the Briton was fairly clear that the Italian team took too long in making a decision, hence his feisty radio message exchanges with the Ferrari pitwall.

Team principal Vasseur, though, clarifies however that there's always a delay between when the messages are issued on the radio and the time they reach the actual broadcast.

"The radio transmission, first you have to understand that it's formed with managing the delay. It means that sometimes we are asking them something and you have it live half an hour later or one hour later," Vasseur said to media like GPblog.

In China this was the case, when Hamilton told Ferrari to instruct Leclerc to go by him as the Monegasque was quicker. But it's not only the issue of the delay between the live action messages and the broadcast, as the Frenchman revealed.

On top of that, completing the swap at the right time on the right section of the track, is not the easiest thing to accomplish either. But, for Vasseur, the most important thing is that it was done after all.