Following his sensational lap in Saturday's qualifying which saw Charles Leclerc claim a shock pole position for Ferrari, the Monegasque endured a heartbreaking result at the Hungarian Grand Prix despite his impressive pace during his first two stints of the race. F1Technical's senior writer Balazs Szabo delivers his latest analysis in his column branded as F1MATHS.
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Leclerc used to really struggle on sprint weekends. He still does sometimes but the past year he's become better at finding the right setup after the sprint.
He was amazing in S1. Too bad he lost so much time in S2 but still. Great result compared to the sprint. Map of the final laps from Fred
I think Ferrari should have tried the double prep in Q3 instead. In Q3 it makes sense to try anything, like Russell with the mediums, because it's the last chance and no danger of being knocked out. For Q2 the way they were prepping the tires originally was at least good enough for Q3 maybe. But I get why Hamilton wanted to switch it up. Did he run more downforce than Leclerc?
Leclerc will replace Newey. How does he fix the car after every sprint lmao?
He is just able to extract whatever the car has to offer, which isn’t much most weekends, but this wasn’t a bad outing for the SF25 around this technical track
Piastri deserved a DSQ there not 10s, and at least 10s stop and go, and that it took almost 20 laps to adjudicate again is pathetic. Palmer is drunk saying he was "entitled to the space" when he was level with the rear wheels before even reaching the apex on both fronts locked and not in control.
Piastri has had a complete devolution to bottom of the barrel mediocre driver in this 2nd half of the season, he doesn't deserve a championship and hope he keeps on crashing left and right like he's now accustomed to.
Leclerc's luck is just unbelievable. Second time this year he has given the other driver half the track in space and someone has clipped him and taken him out.