Vasseur: “Leclerc never worried me. He lacked results, not performances”

Ferrari, Leclerc takes back the stage A triumph to chase away the ghosts, reject the criticisms and take Ferrari back. At Silverstone, Charles Leclerc finally found victory again, interrupting a lack of success that had lasted since the 2024 United States Grand Prix. The Monegasque driver managed to climb back onto the top step of the podium at the end of a hard-fought race, in which (for once) good luck also assisted him with a technical problem for a Kimi Antonelli who was chasing the Ferrari driver. Leclerc has put a very complex period behind him, as he himself admitted in the team radio after the checkered flag, but he has raised his head again. And he was able to do it also thanks to the trust of Frederic Vasseur, who never stopped believing in him despite the recent disappointing results and the mistakes not like Leclerc. Vasseur’s words “I never agreed with all the questions they asked me about him throughout the weekend. For us, in light of the data, the situation was not negative. What was difficult for him was the lack of points and results: he had a reliability problem in Barcelona, a bad start in the Silverstone Sprint, he had the feeling of losing pace a bit; but in terms of performance, I was never worried, because the data showed that Charles was there”, this the Frenchman’s comment. “He understood that every change to the settings doesn’t necessarily translate into a gain in lap time, but it can give him the confidence to attack more,” he added. “It’s crucial in a race like Silverstone, where he was very consistent throughout the GP. If you look at the first 20 laps, he was lapping with a gap of one or two tenths between one lap and the next; this played a key role for us.”

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2026-07-10 06:00:00