F1, Ferrari: Charles Leclerc expresses all his bitterness

Second at the start, fourth at the finish, with hopes of a podium finish in the hours after the race extinguished for good when race officials “spared” George Russell, leaving him second. This can be summarized as the race of Charles Leclerc, who also missed the podium in Bahrain, while confirming Ferrari’s best result of the season (speaking of Sunday GPs) already obtained in Japan.

“I fought from the’beginning to the end, we did the maximum but obviously the maximum is not enough, we could not do better than the fourth place – said the Monegasque to the microphones of ‘Sky Sport‘ -. The strategy? It was what we wanted to do from the start: we could not use the soft as Russell did, we degrade it faster. We had to put on the hard tires at the end”.

“I really hope that we can get back to fighting for the podium soon – Leclerc commented – It’s a disappointment when you give everything and end up in fourth place. It is not a result that makes me smile, although, I repeat, we really gave everything this weekend, but obviously this is the situation we are in right now”.

Leclerc, in addition to his two fourth-place finishes in Japan and Bahrain, adds to his season total tally the points he earned with eighth place in Australia and fifth in the Sprint Race in China won by Lewis Hamilton, in a weekend that ended with the disqualification of the two Ferraris following irregularities detected after Sunday&#8217s GP. The next race is scheduled in Saudi Arabia, where Leclerc finished third last year.