Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc feels his Maranello teammate Carlos Sainz helped to fix his “weakness” after the their first year together at the Italian side.
Carlos Sainz signed with Scuderia Ferrari at the start of the 2021 Formula 1 campaign after two years with McLaren and had an immediate impact by finishing behind only the two Red Bull and Mercedes pairings in the drivers’ standing, even ahead of his Maranello teammate who was expected to be ahead of him given the fact that he was in his third season with Ferrari.
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Since making his Formula 1 debut four seasons ago, Charles Leclerc has been heralded as a future champion, and the Monégasque feels he has only been made stronger by his defeat to Carlos Sainz in 2022:
“I think we learned a lot,” said Charles Leclerc – “As always, when you have a new team-mate, you always learn with the new ways of how Carlos is approaching race weekends, the way he works, his talent and raw speed also, the way he takes the corners. He had an amazing year. He pushed me very much to perform better at every race and it has just been extremely interesting. To pinpoint one thing, I think maybe one of the strong points of Carlos is race management and tyre management, which was probably my weakness in 2019. I progressed a lot as a driver in 2020 and again [last year] and part of it is thanks to Carlos.” – Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc explained.
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