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[Ollywood1987]

I do not like these couch experts who criticise Leclerc for his spinning and after...
You have no idea how much he tried to hang on to third place, and how terrible it is to make a very small mistake and loose so much...
He is not ahead of Hamilton because he is simply faster, but because he drives on the edge a lot harder. And he does this since many many years at Ferrari despite all the disappointments of promises of a winning car. So I can understand him.

Let's hope the engine will fix their championship, because if not, I can see the current team falling apart, sadly. Vasseur will loose the trust from the owners, and many important team members in Ferrari, like the drivers.

A good driver should always know how hard they can push the car and when the reward doesn't outweigh the risks. Excusing a driver for mistakes because they were "pushing hard" is very convenient, but when it happens repeatedly, it requires serious reflection on what I said above.

Leclerc is a very talented driver, and I've never doubted that, but he has a problem with taking too many unecessary risks and easily succumbing to any kind of pressure in that context. Even if he were in a car capable of fighting for the title, this characteristic could easily cost him a title, and the bad thing is that he doesn't seem to have improved at all in this aspect in all these years he's been in F1.

Oh come on, Leclerc barely ever makes these mistakes these days. Verstappen also made a big mistake today, and he's probably the best driver this sport has seen since Schumacher. Norris is easily more mistake-prone even when he's got the best car. And frankly, the only reason a podium was even remotely on the cards was because of Leclerc just being that good. Coming in to bash Leclerc over this feels like convenient opportunism than actual reasonable criticism. smh

Either way, it's the team ultimately letting Leclerc down way more often than the other way around. The guy deserves a proper top car. It's gotta be demoralizing knowing how well he drives so consistently and it simply doesn't matter because the Merc engine is more powerful.

Best since Schumacher?! And what is this based on? Vibes? Yet to win a clean WDC with zero in team competition. also played Mario Cart with most of the field in both the sprint and GP this weekend and got away with it because the FIA are scared he will walk away now he’s not winning. Leclerc, top driver but even with an engine over powered by some margin in 2019 wasn’t able to be in contention for a WDC. Wasn’t even comfortably beaten by Sainz.

[Xyz22]

I do not like these couch experts who criticise Leclerc for his spinning and after...
You have no idea how much he tried to hang on to third place, and how terrible it is to make a very small mistake and loose so much...
He is not ahead of Hamilton because he is simply faster, but because he drives on the edge a lot harder. And he does this since many many years at Ferrari despite all the disappointments of promises of a winning car. So I can understand him.

Let's hope the engine will fix their championship, because if not, I can see the current team falling apart, sadly. Vasseur will loose the trust from the owners, and many important team members in Ferrari, like the drivers.

A good driver should always know how hard they can push the car and when the reward doesn't outweigh the risks. Excusing a driver for mistakes because they were "pushing hard" is very convenient, but when it happens repeatedly, it requires serious reflection on what I said above.

Leclerc is a very talented driver, and I've never doubted that, but he has a problem with taking too many unecessary risks and easily succumbing to any kind of pressure in that context. Even if he were in a car capable of fighting for the title, this characteristic could easily cost him a title, and the bad thing is that he doesn't seem to have improved at all in this aspect in all these years he's been in F1.

It’s difficult to stay calm when it’s been 7 years of cars not even close to fight for the world championship.

[organic]

I do not like these couch experts who criticise Leclerc for his spinning and after...
You have no idea how much he tried to hang on to third place, and how terrible it is to make a very small mistake and loose so much...
He is not ahead of Hamilton because he is simply faster, but because he drives on the edge a lot harder. And he does this since many many years at Ferrari despite all the disappointments of promises of a winning car. So I can understand him.

Let's hope the engine will fix their championship, because if not, I can see the current team falling apart, sadly. Vasseur will loose the trust from the owners, and many important team members in Ferrari, like the drivers.

A good driver should always know how hard they can push the car and when the reward doesn't outweigh the risks. Excusing a driver for mistakes because they were "pushing hard" is very convenient, but when it happens repeatedly, it requires serious reflection on what I said above.

Leclerc is a very talented driver, and I've never doubted that, but he has a problem with taking too many unecessary risks and easily succumbing to any kind of pressure in that context. Even if he were in a car capable of fighting for the title, this characteristic could easily cost him a title, and the bad thing is that he doesn't seem to have improved at all in this aspect in all these years he's been in F1.

It’s difficult to stay calm when it’s been 7 years of cars not even close to fight for the world championship.

They just need to continue developing the chassis.

It's currently the best. Over time the advantage to others on chassis side will likely go down.

Then you have to hope/trust the engine deficit will reduce faster than the other teams can claw back on the chassis side.

To me this is a believable path to victory

[Xyz22]

A good driver should always know how hard they can push the car and when the reward doesn't outweigh the risks. Excusing a driver for mistakes because they were "pushing hard" is very convenient, but when it happens repeatedly, it requires serious reflection on what I said above.

Leclerc is a very talented driver, and I've never doubted that, but he has a problem with taking too many unecessary risks and easily succumbing to any kind of pressure in that context. Even if he were in a car capable of fighting for the title, this characteristic could easily cost him a title, and the bad thing is that he doesn't seem to have improved at all in this aspect in all these years he's been in F1.

It’s difficult to stay calm when it’s been 7 years of cars not even close to fight for the world championship.

They just need to continue developing the chassis.

It's currently the best. Over time the advantage to others on chassis side will likely go down.

Then you have to hope/trust the engine deficit will reduce faster than the other teams can claw back on the chassis side.

To me this is a believable path to victory

It’s too late for this season. It’s also likely that McL will out develop everyone on the aero side as they have the best Technical Team in Formula 1.

[deadhead]

Leclerc is conditioned to take extra risks because he is mostly fighting against cars that are faster in order to get a good result. Need to “chill out” I guess

[Jambier]

Leclerc is conditioned to take extra risks because he is mostly fighting against cars that are faster in order to get a good result. Need to “chill out” I guess

Exactly, Leclerc is pushing 110% to try fighting and staying with Mercedes / McLaren, but obviously, Ferrari is slower.
Now I understand this, because it is early season, and good packages / Engine upgrade could put him back in the fight, so for now they need to minimize points loss

[FDD]

Leclerc is conditioned to take extra risks because he is mostly fighting against cars that are faster in order to get a good result. Need to “chill out” I guess

Right

[Waz]

I do not like these couch experts who criticise Leclerc for his spinning and after...
You have no idea how much he tried to hang on to third place, and how terrible it is to make a very small mistake and loose so much...
He is not ahead of Hamilton because he is simply faster, but because he drives on the edge a lot harder. And he does this since many many years at Ferrari despite all the disappointments of promises of a winning car. So I can understand him.

Let's hope the engine will fix their championship, because if not, I can see the current team falling apart, sadly. Vasseur will loose the trust from the owners, and many important team members in Ferrari, like the drivers.

Think that you're right.
He is pushing hard, driving on the edge most of the time with higher risk to make mistakes.
It is worth to mention that against Oscar he had 7 laps older tires also.
My personal opinion is that he has to relax a bit with the pushing and to bring points home.
Waiting for the new ICE.

Strange view point. Charles already has 2 GP podiums, 2 Sprint podiums and a 4th place. If his tires held together in Miami he would almost certainly be on the podium again.

It would be bizarre that he should suddenly settle for 5th place until the engine upgrade.

[Luscion]

New engine for Ferrari at Spa

https://autoracer.it/ferrari-nuovo-moto ... ro-la-679/

[Fakepivot]

New engine for Ferrari at Spa

https://autoracer.it/ferrari-nuovo-moto ... ro-la-679/

that's a long time, suffering will continue...

[Luscion]

New engine for Ferrari at Spa

https://autoracer.it/ferrari-nuovo-moto ... ro-la-679/

that's a long time, suffering will continue...

Yup, Barcelona and Silverstone might be rough for Ferrari, they should be strong at Monaco though

[basti313]

New engine for Ferrari at Spa

https://autoracer.it/ferrari-nuovo-moto ... ro-la-679/

that's a long time, suffering will continue...

Yup, Barcelona and Silverstone might be rough for Ferrari, they should be strong at Monaco though

I rather think this is alarming for the fact, that they are even close to 4% deficit. That would mean that Merc is using more sandbags than we see. And 4% is a deficit they will never be able to catch with one update...not even close.

[matt_b]

So 13 races with the new engine is not too bad, they also have Monaco. We also dont know the performance of the cars in any up and coming wet races although knowing Ferrari luck it'll be dry all season until Spa

[deadhead]

It would be bizarre that he should suddenly settle for 5th place until the engine upgrade.

Needs to be realistic about the performance level of the car, otherwise he will end up hitting more walls

[Sylv1]

There's a lot of talk about an engine update thanks to ADUO, but do we even know if the engine department in Maranello has been able to find a good performance gain?