1997 Components 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve has argued that Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc’s on-track battle through the Chinese language Grand Prix “destroyed Ferrari’s race.”
The race on the Shanghai Worldwide Circuit featured an thrilling back-and-forth between the 2 drivers. Hamilton completed the race in third, scoring his first podium with the Maranello outfit, whereas Leclerc was fourth.
“Effectively, it was honest as a result of he completed third, so and he managed to beat his team-mates, so sure, it turned out OK, nevertheless it was a bit of bit excessive, and it destroyed Ferrari’s race,” Villeneuve instructed Sky Sports activities F1 of Hamilton. “They had been working second and third.”
Whereas watching a replay, the Canadian added: “He did it on the braking, fairly late, after which they had been preventing so arduous, destroying their tyres, and in these two laps they misplaced 5 seconds to Antonelli.”
Three-time W Sequence champion Jamie Chadwick disagreed, arguing that Ferrari realised that Mercedes, which completed first and second with Kimi Antonelli and George Russell, weren’t their combat at this time.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari
Photograph by: James Sutton / Components 1 / Components Motorsport Ltd by way of Getty Photos
“I do not suppose Mercedes had been their battle at this time although, and I fairly like the very fact they are going at it, to be trustworthy,” she mentioned. “I additionally preferred the truth that they each appeared to be fairly blissful. Charles as effectively is like, ‘I am truly having a little bit of enjoyable.’
“OK, sure, the preliminary begin of the overtake is instigated by the brand new deployment we’ve got, and that appears a bit totally different and a bit arduous to perhaps get your head round, however what I like is the execution of the overtake remains to be actually dangerous.
“To have good race craft, it’s a must to have good consciousness, and I feel that half I fairly like, and that is the place you see a world champion like Lewis Hamilton simply excels and even with Charles right here, he is simply obtained such good consciousness of racecraft. That is what obtained him his podium at this time and was nice to see.”
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