After both he and the top managers of Ferrari came to the fore to clarify that his abandonment had been caused by a driver error, and not by the car, Charles Leclerc is self-critical after a new error.
From being 38 points behind defending champion Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc leaves Paul Ricard with a disadvantage of 63 pointsan abysmal difference in the absence of little time for Hungary to close the first half of the season and the drivers go on forced vacations, some of them thinking about what has happened in these months.
On lap 17, and after having managed to withstand the constant attacks of a Max Verstappen who threw himself on top of the Monegasque again and again in the last part of the Gallic circuit thanks to the DRS, #16 ended his career early against protections.
Their “I can’t use the throttle” enraged by the radio, he was confused with the cause that led him to lose control of his F1-75, especially after in Austria it was that same pedal that caused him problems, but Leclerc himself sang the ‘mea culpa’ and acknowledged firmly that it had all happened because of his mistake.
Not one more mistake
“I feel like I’m probably giving up at the highest level of my career since the beginning of the season, but Has no sense perform at this high level if I then make mistakes. 32 points, 25 today because we were likely to win the race,” Leclerc mused aloud.
The Ferrari driver recently assured that he is fully confident in his chances of qualifying for the title, despite the last glimpses of Red Bull, but that everything would depend on how they face and finish the next races before August… and for the moment things don’t go the way he would have liked.
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Already against the tire wall, Leclerc confessed that he was unable to activate the clutch to try to get back into the race, but what caused him to go off the track was not the fault of Ferrari. «No, it was not, or at least I still don’t know if it was, but it didn’t seem like it, it was just a mistake,” he admitted, overwhelmed to learn that his eternal “Noooooo!” yelling pissed off had been heard. «I didn’t know I had left the radio onIt’s extremely frustrating.”
Without forgetting this mistake, Leclerc is already doing his own accounts: «If by the end of the year I’m 32 points short, then I’ll know it was my fault. and that he did not deserve to win the championship. I need to be up to the task in the second half of the championship if I want to be world champion », he added referring to his other mistake in Imola, when he went off track attacking to try to be 2nd and finished 6th.
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“Balance issues” have plagued him all weekend, and the end result has been the worst possible. «I like to have oversteer, but, whenever it is this hot, it is very difficult to be constant. I haven’t been very good and I paid the price for making a big mistake during the race. I think I’m going to lock myself up at home… I just want to stay home », he concluded.