Sebastian Vettel has suggested a lack of courage was behind Ferrari’s decision to pit early in order to avoid Charles Leclerc having to overtake him.

Vettel was trying to recover from a first lap spin before he was told by the team to pit earlier than he would have liked. Ferrari’s decision put the four-time World Champion into a lot of traffic and he openly criticised the team for bringing him in.

“It is in the gap that we didn’t like,” Vettel said on team radio.

“We spoke about it this morning. I’ll hang in there but you know that you’ve messed up.