Charles Leclerc Hides His Tears While Carlos Sainz Giggles at the Title Contender’s Ferrari-Inflicted Wounds “I Laugh to Keep From Crying”

Scuderia Ferrari had high expectations after working tirelessly on their car during the pre-testing season, and their drivers had, more or less, delivered on that promise. However, the Prancing Horse’s chances of winning the championship this year have been destroyed by the continuous plaguing of numerous issues. Above all the problems, there sits Charles Leclerc‘s inability to control his weeping due to the Maranello-based company’s poor strategy.

Despite being the lone legitimate challenger to Max Verstappen this year, Charles Leclerc was unable to turn his fair advantage into a championship this year. Monaco was the race where the major problems of Ferrari, including driver error, tactical blunder, and reliability woes, were on display.

Before he was brought in for the second stop, Leclerc was in an excellent position to compete against Red Bull’s Sergio Perez on his home track at Monaco. Ferrari abruptly changed their mind and yelled at him to wait outside as soon as he turned in to make the stop, but it was too late. The Monegasque then sent a message with an expletive tone after realizing that the Scuderia’s tactical mistake had caused him to finish fourth. After the race, the 25-year-old claimed he was speechless and accused Ferrari of making the incorrect decision.

Later when he was asked about the worst moment of the season in one of the interviews, he said, “For me, it’s probably it’s Monaco because nothing is going my way, every time there’s something going on, let’s see what will happen next year.” In the same interview, Carlos Sainz was also present and was found giggling over the way Monegasque was laughing and said, “It makes me laugh that he laughs.” To that, the 25-year-old replied, “I laugh to keep from crying.”

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Ferrari and co. were undoubtedly the architects of their demise in the majority of instances. In the forthcoming 2023 season, the team will try to avoid this, and Leclerc explains how to do it.

Charles Leclerc believes the team won’t make the same mistakes again

But for the blunders Ferrari committed, the year could have turned out differently and resulted in ending their 16-year-long championship drought. The group will undoubtedly want to address all the errors.

When quizzed about the areas of improvement, Charles Leclerc was reported as saying, “Learning from mistakes. This is the main thing. I also believe that whenever you are into the rhythm of good races then that helps.” Leclerc seemed quite confident about not repeating the mistakes in the coming year and added, “We had a moment of our season where we struggled a lot and that then pushed people to maybe overdo things and that is where mistakes occur. So on that, I feel we have learned the lesson and hopefully, we won’t do that next year.”

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