Sky Sports F1’s Karun Chandhok analysis of Scuderia Ferrari’s 2019 British Grand Prix performance and result in Silverstone:
“Charles Leclerc did an outstanding job in qualifying and for the third weekend in a row now, he was the faster Ferrari driver. I genuinely think he out-performed the car to get within 0.079s of pole position – a massive six tenths ahead of the other Ferrari. That’s something that wouldn’t have escaped the attention of Mr Vettel, who I’m sure realises that he has a much bigger challenge on his hands now than he had with Kimi Raikkonen for the past few years.
Seb’s error in the race was of course a major talking point. He put his hands up and accepted the blame for it, and even walked over and apologised to Max straight after the race in parc ferme which was the right thing to do. But what has been going on with Sebastian since Germany 2018 – a year ago now – is one of F1’s big mysteries. This is a four-time world Champion who has made a lot of errors and really isn’t doing justice to his huge talent. Seb is a great character, a great driver and now very experienced – so quite why we’ve seen so many errors is confusing.
Perhaps it’s frustration that he hasn’t been able to deliver that title with Ferrari? None of us but him know the true answer and frankly, maybe even he doesn’t. The Leclerc versus Verstappen duel carried on from Austria and it was brilliant to watch. Two of the most exciting young talents on the grid going wheel-to-wheel was very entertaining for the fans around the track.
The battles between Lando Norris, Daniel Ricciardo and Carlos Sainz at various points all showed that the future of F1 is in good hands with some seriously talented drivers out there capable of battling wheel-to-wheel and keeping it respectful and clean.”
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