PPL are overreacting on Leclerc's statement.
comparing to last season, 2021 year car was bad , it was a fooking tractor. To jump out of that disaster into last year's challanger was a huge stepup, Secondly at that time nobody knew if RBR was going to be so dominating that they would win 17 of 22 races. Cut to this season all of us including Leclerc know Ferrari is behind ( not by much but still enough for Max to dream of 3rd title ). To say we need to do more only seems realistic.
Now come to Sainz's version .. the two drivers are on diffrent thought process. It's evident from Leclerc's version that he is worried about catching Max while Sainz is more intersted in his own perfomance.