Leclerc finished in P7 and raged to his engineers: "being behind like this is really ****. I don't know what to do!" he hit back: "Xavi, you need to tell me that before!"
Leclerc has come into the jeddah weekend knowing that he faced a 10-place grid penalty. But the weekend has not delivered much optimism for the monegasque. He will start the race in 12th place. It's been a very difficult weekend in terms of pace for us.
Leclerc is hopeful that the team will have a better weekend in jeddah. He will be hoping for a stronger performance from the car as he tries to kickstart his 2023 campaign. The team's goal is to try to do something special.
Leclerc already has a 10-place grid penalty this weekend. The team confirmed it had swapped in new power units in both cars. It is a precaution following on from the retirement of the team.
Leclerc and Sainz have called out the italian media following what they described as “unfounded” reports of disharmony at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Both have denied any kind of dispute within the team while both have described rumours of him meeting with president John Elkann as “absolutely untrue”.
The monegasque driver will pay the price for mechanical problems with a 10-place grid penalty at this weekend's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Leclerc and the team are concerned about their continuing reliability problems, but still believe in their potential.
Charles Leclerc is already facing a grid penalty for a faulty control unit. He saw his title rival, Max Verstappen, drive unchallenged to victory. The 25-year-old says his team knows where the problem lies.
Leclerc will serve a 10-place grid penalty at the saudi arabia grand prix. He retired from third position in the closing stages of the season due to a problem with his control electronics. The team encountered an issue on the first on the morning of the race.
'most displeased' of all at Ferrari due to his frustrations at not being able to compete with Verstappen in terms of outright pace, despite the power unit failure that forced him into an early retirement in Bahrain after 41 laps. Leclerc is under contract with the Prancing Horse until the end of 2024 but has recently been linked with a move to Mercedes.
The monagasque suffered a power failure on lap 41 of the race. He lost the opportunity to grab an easy podium finish. Leclerc said he and his team were expecting to be on the back foot.
Leclerc is the first driver to have to go over his engine components allocation for the season. He will start third in the first race of 2023, with teammate Carlos Sainz in P4. The team chose to modify an oil inlet pipe on the internal combustion engine on both cars.
The latest episode of the popular italian show 'C'e posta por te' had a celebrity guest, none other than leclerc. The show tells human stories, with surprises along the way. She wanted to thank her boyfriend, Giulio, for the time he puts into caring for her.
The 2023 title fight could be between Adrian Newey and Ferrari. The Scuderia looked to have the edge over their rivals when the 2022 season got underway. Mercedes continued to struggle with issues on their W13.
The 2022 challenger finished second in the championship behind Max Verstappen. Leclerc tended to lose out more than the red bull driver on Sundays. He chose the Austrian GP in the #SpanishGP.
Leclerc was the early title favourite in 2022 as he scored two wins from the opening three rounds. He then won 15 of the 22 grands prix, a new record for most victories in a single season. But he now feels at his strongest yet, as it has been very useful for him.
Leclerc won two of the three opening races with a clear advantage in terms of car performance. But the season was marred by reliability issues and strategic errors. The monegasque driver chose the Austrian GP as his favorite race of the season.
Vasseur replaces Mattia Binotto as Ferrari's new team principal. The pair worked together during Leclerc’s championship winning year with ART Grand Prix in GP3 Series (now known as FIA Formula 3) The pair were Sauber's team boss at Sauber in 2018 - his impressive rookie year in F1.
Sainz and Leclerc have different levels of optimism ahead of the final race of the season. Ferrari are without a win in the last 10 races and are lagging behind Red Bull and Mercedes. The Spaniard is optimistic that they will be ‘in the mix” come lights out on Sunday.
Leclerc admits he was in spa for the first time this season. The red bull driver is 98 points behind the world championship leader. He says he has made progress on tyre management, communication and strategy.
Leclerc says he is impatient and will try to do everything possible to win the championship. The championship will also be Ferrari's first since 2007. He believes that it's better to win it as soon as possible.
Leclerc is set for his 100th F1 weekend at the Mexican GP this weekend. He said that the races have gone by too quickly, and he hasn't had the time to reflect much on his career. The driver said that red bull will be the team to beat on Sunday.
F1 rookie nicked first place back by 0.411s as he toured round in 1m23.282s. He was forced back to the pits with a suspected left-rear puncture that benched him for 15 minutes. The session was abandoned four minutes before time to leave Sainz to sit pretty in first.
Max Verstappen has sealed the drivers' championship title with Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez. Both Perez and Leclerc are fighting for second place in the standings. The two-time world champion revealed that he does not expect any gifts from his teammate at the 2022 Mexican Grand Prix.
Leclerc was beaten to this year's drivers' championship title by Max Verstappen. He has since admitted that he was at fault for his glaring errors at Imola and Paul-Ricard. But he also pointed to the deficiencies within the team as another area in need of improvement.
The stewards issued a penalty to Charles Leclerc at the end of the japanese grand prix. He was battling for second with Sergio Perez when the driver cut the chicane at the final corner. The team will not appeal the penalty, but he did draw comparisons to the penalty issued to Perez.
He can get a maximum of one five-second penalty. The difference was more than seven seconds at the end of the race. He was whispered to by his race engineer that he needed to increase the gap towards Leclerc to more than five seconds.
The spaniard led team mate Charles Leclerc in a Ferrari one-two at the end of friday's practice for the Singapore Grand Prix. The 28-year-old lapped the 5km track in one minute, 42.587 seconds to end the day 0.208 seconds quicker than lecelerc. He is less than a tenth of a second clear of his birthday boy, Max Verstappen.
TD39 relates to porpoising and the FIA's metric for vertical oscillations. Leclerc has just two podiums in the final six races to wrap up his second title. The championship leader has just four wins on the board this season.
Leclerc was the first of he and Verstappen to have a final go at setting a time. The monegasque concurred with the german's view that he had made an error. He said he knew exactly where he can find it.
Charles Leclerc had led the way after the first fliers in Q3 and set an even quicker first sector time on his final run to conclude qualifying. But a purple sector in the final third meant the Ferrari driver wound up 0.021s adrift of pole when everything had shaken out in the aftermath of Sergio Perez's late spin.
A tear-off from the Dutchman got stuck in his right front brake duct. This led to the brake temperatures ramping up and an early pitstop to remove it. Leclerc believes the situation needs looking at to avoid others hitting problems. He suggests that drivers should be forced to keep their tear offs inside the car.
Leclerc called for a clear ruling to prevent drivers throwing visor ‘tear-offs’ on the track during races. The 24-year-old said he did not blame his rival. A tear-off dropped by red bull’s world champion and runaway series leader ended up making its way into a brake duct.
The monegasque is now down to third in the drivers' championship. Leclerc re-passed the Spaniard but fell 0.6S short of getting the fastest lap. He was running in fifth place on lap 43 of 44 in an attempt to gain the extra bonus point.
Leclerc was forced into an early pit stop by a visor tear-off getting stuck in his brake duct. The race saw Max Verstappen fight from 14th on the grid to win the race by 17 seconds. He said it was a bit worrying to see the delta of pace between red bull and us.
Leclerc was left dejected as red bull proved to be way to fast for Ferrari at the Belgian GP qualifying. Max Verstappen finished the qualifying hour as the fastest driver by over half-a-second.
Zhou Guanyu crashed into George Russell's car on the start of the British GP. Zhou was hanging upside down in his car and was stretchered to the medical centre. Carlos Sainz Jr. Won his first career F1 race on Sunday. Sergio Pérez passed Hamilton and Leclerc after the restart and finished second.
