Juan Pablo Montoya believes the battle for the Components 1 championship might turn out to be “actually thrilling” if Charles Leclerc can construct on his British Grand Prix victory with the identical consistency proven by his Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton.
Leclerc took his first grand prix win of the season, and his first at Silverstone, on Sunday. The Monegasque driver took the lead in the beginning of the race and later capitalised on a security automotive attributable to Crimson Bull’s Max Verstappen, who spun into the gravel at Stowe nook.
The 28-year-old crossed the road beneath security automotive situations forward of Mercedes’ George Russell in second and Hamilton in third.
Previous to his British Grand Prix breakthrough, Leclerc had endured a troublesome begin to the season.
In the course of the F1 TV post-race present, seven-time grand prix winner Montoya mirrored on Leclerc’s change in type. “I believe what occurs there may be you all the time spend hours wanting on the information, and also you go, ‘OK, that is the place I’ve the problem. How can we cease it?’
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari
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“And in the event that they lastly go, ‘Oh look, perhaps it may very well be the diff is opening an excessive amount of right here, or the migration is just too excessive right here. How come?’ And as soon as you work that out and you’re employed round the issue, you strive it and also you go, ‘Oh, that was it.’ And the issue is now they should translate that to each monitor and acquire that confidence just a little bit.
“We see Lewis is there now each week. And if we will see Charles there each week, this championship goes to get actually thrilling.”
Leclerc’s win at Silverstone means he now sits fourth within the drivers’ standings with 108 factors. Kimi Antonelli leads with 179 factors, with George Russell second on 154 factors and Hamilton third on 147 factors.
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