Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc has impressed in many races since joining the Maranello team at the start of the 2019 Formula One season: Charles was able to match and many times beat four-time Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel in their first year togheter in Maranello, when Ferrari could rely on a strong car, but at the same time the Monegasque driver was the protagonist of some great performances during the 2020 F1 championship, despite the fact that the SF1000 was limited by the power unit, with GPS analysis suggesting that it had lost 65bhp compared to the SF90.
However, Charles Leclerc also made some particularly big errors while driving, explaining that it is out of a desire to produce ‘something special’.
The young Monegasque driver without a doubt one of the leading lights of the upcoming generation of racers, and has already won two Grands Prix in his career with Ferrari in 2019 as the Maranello team hope to soon be able to once again provide Charles with a competitiv car. But Charles Leclerc is guilty of occasional mistakes and crashes, for which he has become famous for his self-berating radio messages.
During the current season, Charles Leclerc crashed in the final stages of the qualifying session for the Monaco Grand Prix, which later caused him to retire before the start of the race on Sunday, in what would have been Ferrari’s best chance at a race win this year:
“Sometimes I let myself go, the desire to do better leads me to make a mistake” – Charles Leclerc said, in a recent interview for Italian daily newspaper Corriere.
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“It is a flaw that has been seen, I believe. In the most difficult moments I tried to combine something special, different from any other driver, to risk something that others can’t do. But there is one thing I want to say: I have always tried to learn when I’m faced with having made the wrong assessment. The price is also high because you are an F1 and Ferrari driver, but it is part of the game. Taking an extreme risk by trying to earn a few tenths means you may be doing the opposite, losing ground instead of progressing. But I am convinced that, in this sport, a driver must seek perfection.” – he added.
Asked about whether he believes he is the very best in Formula 1 and whether there were any self-doubts, Charles Leclerc admitted that he prefers not to focus on the performances of drivers who are able to rely on better cars:
“I’m not a person who aims to compare myself to others and therefore I don’t think about such things very often. I prefer to focus on what I can and must do. I know what my weaknesses are and I am working on them all the time, every time I make a mistake I dedicate a lot of time to analysis and reflection, I try to understand with the utmost accuracy where I went wrong and where the wrong choice came from. Then, like many other drivers, I am convinced that I have the potential to emerge from it stronger. So, I want to work hard to bring out the best version of myself.” – Charles Leclerc concluded.
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