Charles Leclerc is candid about the duel with Carlos Sainz

The words of Charles Leclerc

Speaking at the microphones of "Sky Sport F1", Charles Leclerc bluntly analyzed his fourth place in the Sprint Race of the Austin GP. More specifically, the Monegasque driver è dwelt on the internal duel with Carlos Sainz in the early stages of the race.

"The fight in the start with Carlos certainly affected my result. This è a Sprint race, so I understand that everyone pushes to the limit to try to get the best possible result" began the number 16 driver.

"Sainz had a different approach than I did. He pushed so hard in the early laps, while I just wanted to be careful with the tire. His approach paid off today compared to mine. It wonò t go into more detail than that," added Charles Leclerc.

On the microphones of "Sky Sport F1", in addition, è also spoke the Spaniard of Ferrari after the second place won thanks to an overtaking in the last lap on Lando Norris: "Here there is always fun and we managed to get a lot of action. We had good battles in the first few laps, then at the end I was struggling with the tires but I saw that Lando was also suffering. I knew if I got into the DRS zone I could get second. I overtook in Turn 1, è it was fun. The reality è è that we didn’t manage the tires so much. We got into so many battles that we could not focus on that. But despite that; the pace è was good. This è encouraging for tomorrow. In qualifying our car is not è in the best condition, but we will try to do the best today".