Slow Safety Car, Leclerc: “He wasn’t going more than 140 km/h, my tires were frozen”

An excited finale “Charles, we need to calm down!”: it is not common for the team principal to open up via radio to communicate with his driver, but Frederic Vasseur in the final stages of the British GP wanted to recall the concentration of Leclerc, who was impatient via radio under the Safety Car regime.
The Monegasque did not like the slow speed of the safety car and made it clear with gestures and in communications with the team.
The Safety Car then remained until the checkered flag, thus guiding Leclerc to the victory he had missed for 37 grands prix. Leclerc criticizes the Safety Car To the microphones of the French Canal+, Charles Leclerc explained what happened in the final laps: “It wasn’t exactly pleasant to receive the news of the Safety Car in the car. But then the biggest problem, which we will probably discuss at the next briefing, is the fact that the Safety Car had to slow down to regroup the whole group”. In doing so, the progress was very slow, like on a motorway: “I think we didn’t exceed 140 km/h behind the Safety Car. I was the first car following it and my tires were completely frozen. If there had been a restart, I would have found myself in an extremely complicated situation. But that’s okay, in the end we still won”, concluded Leclerc.

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2026-07-06 17:00:00