Leclerc and the ‘fight’ with the Ferrari SF-26: “Now I must not delude myself that it is over”

A question of feeling “The feeling will return in Monaco”, said Charles Leclerc after a dull weekend in Canada. On the home weekend, however, the Monegasque ended with an accident while restarting after a Safety Car regime, an episode which led to the ‘crisis’ in the braking system becoming official. Leclerc found the famous feeling with the car, which is the lifeblood above all for a driver’s psyche, only on Saturday and Sunday at Silverstone after meticulous work that the Ferrari driver tried to minimize. In the press conference, Leclerc underlined that he must not now make the mistake of thinking that he has definitively reached the end of the tunnel: “It’s just a race and I must not delude myself that the war is over. The fight with this car has been tough lately and I cannot take it for granted that I have left it behind me. I will therefore continue to work, trying to rediscover that feeling with greater consistency in the future.” “Focusing only on the victory at Spa would be the wrong approach – he added – I will rather focus on the process necessary to find the ideal feeling and maximize the car’s performance”.

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2026-07-09 06:00:00