Charles Leclerc's Honest Response to Being Beaten by Carlos Sainz

Over the last few years, drivers who have changed teams have generally struggled during the first few races with the new team. One driver who bucked this trend on more than one occasion was Carlos Sainz. Last year he even managed to beat his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc despite it being his debut season at Ferrari. Leclerc has now revealed what it was like to be beaten by Sainz while speaking after their car’s launch

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Charles Leclerc Honestly Responds To Being Beaten By Carlos Sainz

Leclerc began by analyzing his performance last year

“Was I satisfied with my 2021 season? Yes, I was, but there were also opportunities that I lost”

“Sometimes by not being lucky, some others because of myself, just wanting too much, and I’m learning from it”

He then compared his approach to that of Sainz

“I think one of the big strengths of Carlos is being there all the time and in every race he’s always there, always, always there”

“Myself, I can sometimes be too optimistic and last year this happened a few times and it cost me some points, so at the end I paid the price, but I learnt the lesson”

He then revealed his true feelings about finishing behind Sainz

“Of course it hurt. It hurts for every driver, I would lie if I say it doesn’t”

“As soon as you finish behind your team-mate, whether it’s in the championship or in one race, it always hurts, you always want to beat your team-mate”

He summed up his words by looking forward to the future

“It hurts but I go forward, now that’s in the past. Again, as I said, it hurts at the moment but when I look at the past season, I’m satisfied with myself”
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner pointed out that “the latest season [of Netflix’s Drive To Survive] is just coming out” [talkSPORT]

“I just had a preview of the first four episodes”

“This season is insane because of the rivalry between Lewis and Max”

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton thinks that he has “learned a lot over the years on how to engage with a teammate” [Online Press Conference]

“How to work as a team to achieve the ultimate goal”

“That’s one of the reasons why we have more world titles than any other team”

His teammate George Russell doesn’t “think it’s a negative to change teams”

“You like to keep consistency across years, but this is the best year to change teams”

“You’re starting from scratch. Things are starting from zero”

F1’s managing director Ross Brawn suggested that “If following other cars becomes more difficult than [they] imagined, it’s only because teams are trying to improve their own car” [Motorsport]

“I don’t think teams are consciously looking for opportunities to disrupt airflow and thus ways to make following more difficult”

“Teams don’t even have enough time and resources for that”
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