Struggling with his car since the beginning of the weekend, Charles Leclerc still managed to place his car in 7th position. A decent but disappointing performance compared to the pace of his teammate Carlos Sainz on Saturday, who secured 5th place.<\/p>\n
The Monegasque driver completed his entire first stint in Pierre Gasly’s slipstream, but the Ferrari driver never managed to pose a threat to his childhood friend.<\/p>\n
With the McLarens awakening in the race, Charles Leclerc was powerless against Daniel Ricciardo’s surge, who, starting from the 10th position, had already overtaken his teammate and Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n
Directly after being overtaken by the Australian, Ferrari stopped their driver on the 15th lap. A strategic choice that turned out to be very successful for the Scuderia as it allowed Leclerc to overtake Pierre Gasly, Carlos Sainz, and Daniel Ricciardo.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, suffering greatly from his tires, Leclerc had to stop at the pitlane for a second time, which condemned him to lose many positions by coming out in 16th place, a position he held until the end.<\/p>\n
\u00ab It is the toughest race I have done in Formula 1 I think. We were degrading the tires a lot. In the end, we made a second stop just to see if we could understand a little more but it didn’t change the result even though I changed my way of driving, some settings on the steering wheel. We really have to work because Carlos and I struggled a lot today.<\/p>\n
A bad operation for Ferrari and Charles Leclerc who lost a lot of points to McLaren, which placed its two drivers in the top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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