Charles Leclerc revealed that essentially the most thrilling a part of his race in the course of the Qatar Grand Prix was calculating the championship factors within the title battle between Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen.
The Ferrari driver suffered a troublesome weekend, alongside together with his team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Leclerc completed eighth with Hamilton behind in twelfth. As he struggled to seek out confidence and tempo within the automobile, the Monegasque driver turned his consideration to watching the race forward of him and understanding the factors within the championship battle.
Piastri, who began from pole place, misplaced the win to four-time champion Verstappen after McLaren determined to not pit both the Australian driver or Norris beneath an early security automobile. The Woking outfit had the chance to edge Verstappen out of the championship battle in Qatar, however it can now go all the way down to the wire within the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.Â
Heading into the season finale, Norris leads the standings with 12 factors over Verstappen in second and Piastri trails the Dutchman by 4 factors in third.Â
“It is a robust one. It is a robust one,” Leclerc defined when requested who his cash was on for the championship win.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari
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“I believe something can occur when it is that little factors in between. I do not know. It is in all probability going to be between Lando and Max, however something can occur, particularly with the stress that there might be.
“Incidents can play an enormous half in it and they’re all combating for positions. It has been a really boring weekend for me, however I might comply with on the display screen a little bit little bit of that and was making an attempt to do the maths in my head, and at the least that was essentially the most thrilling a part of my race – other than that, it was very boring, and I hope we have now an thrilling final race in Abu Dhabi.”
He added: “It is nice. I want it was a 4[-way] battle and that I might be concerned. I need to race. I need to be combating on the prime, and it is good to see these battles, however it might be pretty if I may very well be a part of it.”
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