In the Brazilian Grand Prix, Scuderia Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc experienced another rollercoaster weekend, as usual starting well and ending bitterly. This time, however, the Monegasque driver was even forced to watch the race from the pits due to a technical issue with his Ferrari SF-23 during the formation lap.
“How unlucky am I,” shouted the number 16 over the radio, incredulous in the face of yet another seasonal misadventure. “This year certainly hasn’t been the luckiest for me. Maybe a trip to Lourdes will help, I don’t know what to do,” he added to Sky microphones.
Italian journalist Leo Turrini wanted to comment on these words in his latest article posted on quotidiano.net, bringing up Le Mans and… Michael Schumacher. Below are some of his most important comments on this topic:
“Perhaps faced with such a technical impasse with his own red car, even Schumi would have cursed in his native language if, after Magny-Cours and the smoking engine of his F310, he had faced the same problem or something similar not even a month later,” writes Leo Turrini, recalling an unfortunate episode involving the seven-time world champion.
“But Schumi is Schumi. And I don’t know how many remember him at Le Mans in ’91 with Herr Sauber’s Mercedes, setting a fast lap in the race. 3’ 35” 564, leading the classic French endurance race for two laps. A chick raised in Stuttgart. On the Swiss-German two-seater with Wendlinger and Kreuzpointner. 69 years old among the three, and that German faster than the other two. That’s who Schumi was at Le Mans at the time. Perhaps the race pace that made the driver from Kerpen immortal with single-seaters was born right here. Between the covered wheels and the straight of the Hunaudières,” emphasizes the journalist, who then indulges in some ‘dreamy’ phrases about Charles Leclerc.
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“And perhaps the profound discouragement that the current Ferrari driver conveys in F1 lends itself freely to a suggestion, the product of which, even reversing the factors, would be the certification for a certain celebration. As Robert Kennedy said, some look at things as they are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask… why not. Why not imagine that Charles Leclerc at Le Mans could be the true vocation to turn to in the darkest moment?” Leo Turrini wonders. And he concludes by writing, “Forget Lourdes. Perhaps with a fast lap of his own to start. Just like Schumi. More than 30 years ago.” – the Italian journalist concluded ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
