Inevitably the crucial episode of the 2022 French Grand Prix for Scuderia Ferrari was the glaring mistake made by Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc, who finished his Sunday against the protective barriers while he was leading the race at Circuit Paul Ricard. A mistake that is difficult to digest for the Monegasque talent, who is coupled with the mistake of Imola, where Charles Leclerc spun while trying to chase Sergio Perez to snatch second position.
As happened in the past, #16 of the Maranello team was extremely honest in front of the cameras, taking all the responsibility for the error upon himself and also calculating the points lost to Max Verstappen for his own responsibility: 32, or about half of the current gap that separates the Ferrari driver from the reigning world champion. However, the whole Ferrari team drew close to Charles Leclerc, starting with his teammate Carlos Sainz, who won the Driver of the Day award thanks to his great recovery drive, finishing in fifth place despite the fact that he started from 19th position and could have finished on the podium without a mistake from Ferrari at his first pit stop, with an unsafe release that cost him a five-second penalty.
Interviewed by Sky Sport F1 after the French Grand Prix, the former McLaren driver tried to ‘cheer up’ Charles Leclerc from a distance, underlining how such mistakes can happen to everyone and ‘predicting’ some inattention on the part of Max Verstappen as well. “I haven’t talked to Charles yet – said the Spaniard after the race – but we all make mistakes. I made them at the beginning of the season and people were very mean to me, because they seemed like stupid mistakes. But trust me, driving these cars to the limit isn’t easy. We are pushing hard and taking a lot of risks – concluded Carlos Sainz – and a mistake like this can happen once a year, or even twice. It will also happen to Max at some point in the season”
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