Monaco is also very small, it's like a little village. It's very likely they knew each other or friends of friends. People that live there long time especially...
Does Leclerc make too many mistakes From this link from BBC - https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/62286363 —Leclerc looked to have begun to get his season back on track with a convincing victory in Austria two weeks ago - where, as in France, Verstappen pitted first, leaving Leclerc to catch and re-pass him. Which he did. Three times. But now Leclerc has dropped his own clanger, and in doing so he has revived the old assessments of him, that he was an extravagantly talented and brilliantly fast driver, but a bit too prone to mistakes. A glance back through his Ferrari career underlines how he earned that reputation. Image Unavailable, Please Login Charles Leclerc shows his frustration after a crash in qualifying during the 2019 Azerbaijan Grand Prix There was the crash in qualifying in Baku in 2019, when he should have taken pole. In 2020, he cannoned into team-mate Sebastian Vettel on the first lap in Austria; crashed heavily out of the Italian Grand Prix when pushing hard after a pit stop; made an error braking too late at the last corner in the wet in Turkey, and turned second place into fourth, after what until then had been one of the drives of his career; and retired in a collision with Sergio Perez on the first lap in Bahrain. And then last year he crashed in final qualifying at Monaco. It secured him pole position by ending the session, but Ferrari did not spot that he had damaged a driveshaft hub, and the car broke down on the way to the grid. After the race on Sunday, team principal Mattia Binotto defended the driver who in the winter of 2019-20, after a brilliant first season for Ferrari, he signed to a five-year deal. "It is a bit of an unfair judgement," he said, when asked what he thought of claims Leclerc made too many mistakes. "He was driving at the limit. It is the sort of thing that may happen when you are driving at the limit. "We will take our time to discuss with him and to judge why it happened. There is no reason to blame him. We have always seen Charles reacts very strongly when he does mistakes and I am pretty sure he will be back in Hungary stronger (next weekend)." Leclerc, though, is not just any driver. He might even be the out-and-out fastest in F1. And he is fighting at a rarefied level against drivers such as Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, from whom mistakes are considerably rarer.—
Yes, highly talented, but too inconsistent . Yesterday he had all the Aces in hand, but still managed to lose the party.
Difficult to argue with you on this precise point. The question mark: Is he able to improve about his inconsistency ? Frankly I don’t know. He reminds me a lot Mansell during his Lotus era..
I'm hoping Chuck and the whole Ferrari team can say "What's behind me is not important." Image Unavailable, Please Login
All the Aces? This race was shaping up to be very close - much closer than Austria. Max has just undercut, and there was no evidence to indicate Ferrari with the major deg advantage they had the previous week. So, longer stints and easy on-track passes were far from a foregone conclusion. I wish we had had the opportunity to see it play out.
As Michael Schumacher said, "I allow myself to do one big mistake per season". Leclerc has made one and a half so far. If he manages to end the season without doing more I´d say mission accomplished. Let´s also remember that Verstappen was also very crash prone earlier in his career and now he´s Jesuschrist in fireproof vest, so let´s put things into perspective. I can be a fierce critic but I despise the attitude of those who say they´re only interested in admiring the excellence but looks more like they´re waiting for someone to fail to kick him while he´s on the ground.
My biggest worrie is not Charles, rather his engine and the rest of the package...but they will deliver, may the force be with the horse!
That's what happens under these rules. Carlos got a new engine, started at the back and was the fastest car out there.
From his reaction after the incident—almost like someone close to him had died—Charles is treating this championship like a life or death situation and is putting a lot of pressure on himself to do the impossible to win it this year. A lot of this is down to making up for lost opportunities so far this year and so knowing he’s almost certainly out of contention he drives with nothing to spare. This is what he was doing last Sunday—driving only to win. I hope he’s realized that in the big picture he’s still doing an amazing job—and he’ll have more chances in the future and the situation is not life or death—and so for the rest of the year just take one race at a time, have fun and enjoy the racing and just do the best he can and whatever happens he’ll know he’s given his best.
Absolutely the right mindset. Two years with a difficult car and suddenly a very competitive Ferrari..
If we think back to 2020, knowing Ferrari now have a top notch car and engine (reliability aside ) seems hard to believe. The rest of the team needs to come up to speed though.
Not really, i've seen a lot of support for him, anyway, if Ferrari were to listen to it's Media, 90% of their drivers wouldn't last one year....i know Gilles wouldn't!!!
I'm not surprised. Leclerc probably lost many supporters in Italy with that crash, now they are out for blood. Let's see how far Ferrari management can stand up to that. Enzo Ferrari was so irritated by the constant criticisms in the Italian press, that once he made a journalist team manager !
