Charles Leclerc has surprisingly supported the FIA in their decision to award him a five-second time penalty at the Japanese Grand Prix, something which left team principal Mattia Binotto seething. The Monegasque had been looking set for another second-place finish, despite having put Max Verstappen under some pressure during the start of the restarted wet
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Charles Leclerc clearly less than pleased with race control, as he asked his team why there was a crane on the track during the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday. Eight years ago, at the same race, Jules Bianchi suffered a fatal accident, hitting a recovery vehicle that had been negligently sent out to collect the
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Sergio Pérez’s late race pressure on Charles Leclerc at the Japanese Grand Prix ultimately claimed team-mate Max Verstappen his second World Championship, on what was a horrible day for Formula 1. The race at the Suzuka International Racing Course started under heavy rainfall, which saw Carlos Sainz crash heavily on the opening lap on the
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It’s difficult to believe that Charles Leclerc led the Drivers’ Championship by 46 points after the first three rounds of the season, and Max Verstappen wrapped up the 2022 title with four races to spare. After what was looking set to be such a promising season for Leclerc and Ferrari, it’s safe to say that
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It was a Japanese Grand Prix to forget for Ferrari, after what was looking set to be a strong race after Charles Leclerc qualified second and Carlos Sainz third. Whilst qualifying was in the dry, the race certainly wasn’t! The conditions were the wettest they’d been all weekend; however, Ferrari had demonstrated strong pace in
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Max Verstappen appears to be allergic to winning a World Championship under normal conditions, after it took his team to open the rulebook to discover that he had indeed become a double World Champion with victory at the Japanese Grand Prix. The Dutchman dealt with pressure from Charles Leclerc superbly during the shortened race at
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Not for the first time this season, Carlos Sainz came within a whisker of claiming pole position, something he last achieved at the Belgian Grand Prix. The top three were astonishingly split by just 0.57 seconds, in what is arguably one of the closest top three in the history of Formula 1. Onboards show that
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Both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz ended the opening day of the Japanese Grand Prix in a positive frame of mind, despite neither topping FP1 or FP2. Leclerc, who currently sits just two points ahead of Sergio Pérez in the battle for second in the Drivers’ Championship, ended FP1 in a strong P3, but ended FP2 lower
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Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz both narrowly missed out on pole position at the Japanese Grand Prix by an unimaginable margin, with Leclerc being just 0.01 seconds off Max Verstappen’s pole time, and Sainz just 0.057 seconds behind the Dutchman. Ferrari have carried their strong performance at last weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix into Suzuka this
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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc wants women to be judged by the same metric as men regarding places on the Formula 1 grid. Only five female drivers have ever entered a championship Formula 1 grand prix, and only two of those have ever started a race. Lella Lombardi is the only woman to score a championship point
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