Charles Leclerc’s inability to control his frustration

When he’s full of adrenaline in a race, the radio tends to do very little for young Monegasque Charles Leclerc who doesn’t know how to control his frustration when things don’t go according to plan inside his Ferrari and that is how he usually betrays his lack of reflexes to read a race. And the most recent example was experienced this weekend at the Saudi Arabian GP when he got angry with his race engineer on the radio, sometimes because he thought the radio wasn’t working and other times because he didn’t know how to read himself in a race that he can do it. lose position with Hamilton while in the Safety Car.

The race engineers won heaven with their patience and their psychologist skills, not remembering the outbursts of an ‘old school’ like Kimi Raikkonen on Simon Rennie or the unlimited patience of Peter Bonnington, known as ‘Bond’ , to Lewis Hamilton. Now it is Xavi Marcos, the voice that has guided Charles Leclerc since his arrival at the Scuderia in 2019, who must endure Leclerc’s nerves.

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It is true that the deployment of the Safety Car did not favor Ferrari’s interests in Jeddah when a brake problem for Lance Stroll on lap 18 forced the Race Direction to react. Both Sainz and Leclerc stopped to change tires before the incident which benefited the interest of the two Mercedes of Russell and Hamilton and of Verstappen who would return, among others, having done it “for free” and continue. in Ferrari.

At this time there was a communication between Marcos and Leclerc, which was not very favorable to them: “Try to push off the line one of the safety cars for Hamilton, he has just entered the pits,” said the Spanish engineer, too late since the Mercedes driver was already coming out of the pit ahead of Leclerc. He had an angry reaction: “Xavi, you have to tell me that first!” he exclaimed excitedly, seeing how Hamilton had overtaken him.

“Understood,” replied Marcos, making peace, “yes, understood but…”, replied Charles Leclerc.

Then the Monegasque gave himself away by showing that he was not reading the race: “I thought we were in nobody and we were not fighting with others. But then Xavi told me, I think before the first corner, that we were fighting Hamilton and it was too late to speed up the delta time”, he declared.