Ferrari, Leclerc doesn’t hide: "Being at 400 points hurts. Now I don’t make predictions"

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc finished fourth in the last Grand Prix of the season in Abu Dhabi, and after the race he drew a clear balance sheet on the Cavallino’s disappointing 2025: “Being faced with the standings and seeing a Ferrari fourth 400 points behind McLaren is something that hurts me a lot, but I hope that we can change this situation next year” explained the Monegasque to Sky. According to Leclerc, the’arrival of Lewis Hamilton has generated huge expectations, which were then unfulfilled: “When someone like Lewis comes to a team like Ferrari and you join two icons of the sport, it is inevitable that you generate a lot of communication around the team and all this is very difficult to manage, if not impossible”.

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“Expectations were also created by the situation we were in and not because of things that we caused.Everything around the team are things that we cannot control. The only thing we can control is being united, pushing hard, being motivated and that is what we are doing”. Leclerc did not open up about 2026: “Predictions about next season? I really don”t have any this time because it”s a blank slate and we don”t know where to start or where the others are, so we” will see. Speaking of the race, Leclerc was surprised by the speed of his single-seater.

“I did not expect to be so fast – he confessed -, because because we kept the same pace as the drivers in front of us for several laps and I made two pit stops to put a little more pressure on McLaren and try to do something different. Obviously, though, Lando copied me and so it wasn’t as exciting. However, I think the strategy of only one pit stop was the right one, however we wanted to try something different, which was the correct thing to do considering that I would not have overtaken Norris with the same tactics” are the words reported by Formulapassion.

Congratulations to Norris: “As much as you want to beat your opponents, to see someone’s happy face as it happened today with Lando is something beautiful. Again, what he experienced today is the ultimate dream of every one of us in this grid, and I am very happy that he was able to achieve it. He deserves it”.

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