Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc talks about the main thing he has learned from teammate Sebastian Vettel. Charles on the main thing he has learned from Seb.

Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc said that he is “very lucky” to have Sebastian Vettel as his team-mate at the Italian side, and has disputed the suggestion he could be viewed as Ferrari’s ‘number one’ driver next season. After impressing at Sauber (now Alfa Romeo) last season, the Monegasque driver was promoted to Ferrari at the expense of former world champion Kimi Raikkonen, who went in the other direction.

It took him, and indeed Ferrari, a little while to find their feet in 2019 but after the summer break he won two races in a row in Spa and Monza, with Sebastian Vettel winning in Singapore. Even though he is currently ahead of the German in the drivers’ championship, Charles Leclerc reckons he can’t be viewed as the Scuderia’s main man as Sebastian Vettel has four titles to his zero, and that he is fortunate to have the veteran there providing advice.

“I’ve got no idea, but Sebastian has won four World Championships, I haven’t won any,” he told Channel 4 when asked about who Ferrari will see as their number one. I believe he has a lot of experience. He’s very quick, very strong, I’m learning a lot from him and then at the end [of the season] we will see, it’s not me making the decision who is number one or number two. At the moment I am happy like this and very lucky to have Seb next to me.” – the Monegasque driver explained.

Charles Leclerc believes the main thing he has learned from Sebastian Vettel is how to deal with, and provide feedback to, the engineers:

“It’s a bit new to me to look at next year’s car because until now I have been changing teams every year. But at the moment I’m learning from that and I think it really helps to have Seb next to me who is used to these type of things, to see how he works on the development of the car, what is the key things to say to the engineer. There are so many things that you can say to an engineer, but if you say all of those things, you can confuse them a little bit, so you need to choose what you want to say, and at this Seb is helping quite a lot.” – Scuderia Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc concluded.