Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wanted to has offer some words of advice to Scuderia Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc after the Monegasque driver made a rare error in last weekend’s French Grand Prix at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet and was forced to retire while leading the race and being in a strong position to take the race win.
As a result of his DNF in France, Charles Leclerc is now 63-points behind championship leader Max Verstappen in the Drivers standings, which means he has an almost impossible task of attempting to recover the huge gap in the second part of the 2022 Formula One season. Professing himself as “gutted” for the Ferrari driver, Lewis Hamilton shared some advice to Charles Leclerc, who in 2022 is fighting against the Mercedes driver’s rival from the previous F1 campaign:
“It’s been great to see the pace of the Ferrari this year. I’m gutted for Charles, who’s been doing a great job, as has Carlos. “It’s not easy though, having that pace and that performance and maintaining it. It’s a tough job and I feel for the whole team because I know what that can feel like. But they’re a great team, and they’ll continue to keep their heads down. Yeah, [there are] massive gaps [in the points], obviously pretty huge so that’s pretty smooth sailing in that space generally. But a lot still can go wrong up ahead so I would just advise them just to continue to push.” – the Mercedes driver said, after the French Grand Prix.
The 2022 Formula 1 championship was marked by the introduction of a completely new set of rules and technical regulations, as ground effect technology was used with the goal of reducing dirty air and therefore giving drivers more overtaking possibilities as compared to the previous years. Partially there has been some improvement, with the midfield closer than in recent seasons, but there are still two teams which are a lot faster than the rest of the field, Ferrari and Red Bull.
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“Just with the rules, the rule change I think has been positive in many ways, however, it’s not necessarily really changed the order as such. If you look, there’s always been two teams most likely at the front and there’s been that middle-pack gap and even coming into these new rules, regulations, you’ve pretty much seen that same thing. So I’m hoping that the rules progress and improve and the teams can all be a little bit closer.” – Lewis Hamilton concluded.
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