Charles Leclerc all but conceded the world championship to Max Verstappen after he admitted it is going to be “very difficult” to stop his rival following another Ferrari blunder at the 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc had approached the Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit weekend with optimism. In the traditional interviews at the beginning of the weekend, the Monegasque driver also pointed out, between the serious arguments and deliberately inappropriate humour, to some jokes on the Internet regarding the results that he would have needed to try and snatch the 2022 Formula One title from Max Verstappen’s hands.
“If I win them all …” the young Monegasque driver of Ferrari said. A phrase which revealed the confidence that there was in Ferrari for the trip to Budapest at the Hungaroring. Instead, due to the low temperatures on Sunday in the race and yet another strategy not up to par, Charles Leclerc fell from the lead to sixth after the checkered flag.
At the end of the Hungarian Grand Prix, speaking to the French TV Canal +, his analysis regarding what was left of the world championship hopes was understandably ruthless. “We cannot hope to win the championship if we do races like this” – admitted Charles Leclerc, who appeared rather resigned – “I don’t know about the strategy, my medium tires were good. I had a good feeling with them. I don’t understand”. To make things even worse for Ferrari fans, there is also a short video, which has already gone viral, that portrays Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell talking to each other in the cooldown room, the first place where the first three finishers meet after the race, before they go on the podium.
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The topic of discussion, inevitably, was the Ferrari strategy. Hamilton looks at the images on the screen and asks the other two, bewildered, if Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari F1-75 car was actually on hard tires. With a half laugh both Max Verstappen and George Russell answer yes, tacitly underlining how incorrect the call of the Maranello pit wall was. A scene of a few seconds that, however, tells the difficult moment of the Ferrari pit wall better than a thousand words.
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