Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz’s journey house from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix took an surprising flip, with the Ferrari driver sharing a video of the journey on social media
Charles Leclerc has shared an surprising twist in his journey house from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. After a forgettable weekend in Baku, the place Ferrari struggled for tempo, all of the Monegasque racer needed was to get again to Monaco as rapidly as attainable.
Regardless of displaying promise in Friday’s follow, Leclerc’s hopes of securing a fifth pole place on the Baku Metropolis Circuit have been dashed when he crashed throughout qualifying. Beginning the race in tenth place, he, like his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, did not make vital headway and completed ninth, simply behind the seven-time Formulation 1 champion.
Nevertheless, his hopes of a swift return to Monaco have been thwarted when hostile climate situations pressured the aircraft he was travelling on with fellow racer Carlos Sainz to divert and land “in the course of Italy”.
In a video posted on social media, Leclerc might be heard saying: “So after a really troublesome weekend in Baku, I believed it could not get any worse, however…” Switching to the rear digicam on his cellphone, Leclerc is seen using shotgun in a street automobile, coming into a darkish tunnel.
He then pans the digicam to disclose that it is his former Ferrari team-mate Sainz on the wheel. Prompting the Spaniard to elucidate their state of affairs, Sainz chuckles as he says: “We have been diverted for a storm. We could not land in Good, so we landed in the course of Italy. We rented a van and now we’re on our strategy to Monaco.” Leclerc concludes the video with a sarcastic: “Ah, good.”
Regardless of the surprising detour, former Ferrari driver Sainz was in excessive spirits, probably as a consequence of his efficiency in Baku. The Spanish racer has had a difficult first season with Williams however shone on the Azerbaijan GP, qualifying second and securing a third-place end – his first podium for his new crew.
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“Actually, I can’t describe how completely satisfied I’m, how good this feels,” Sainz mentioned after the race. “It is even higher than my first ever podium. We have been preventing laborious all 12 months and eventually immediately we simply proved that, when now we have the pace – and we have had all of it 12 months – every thing comes collectively and we are able to do some superb issues collectively.
“At the moment, we nailed the race with not one mistake and we managed to beat a whole lot of automobiles that, yesterday, I used to be not anticipating to beat. I am extraordinarily pleased with everybody at Williams for pushing via an especially troublesome 12 months. We have confirmed to everybody the huge step that we have taken in comparison with final 12 months. We’re on the rise, moving into the appropriate course.
“Sadly, with me, we have had a whole lot of unhealthy luck and incidents [which has made it] very troublesome to transform that tempo into outcomes. However now I perceive why all of it occurred, as a result of the primary podium wanted to come back like this. It is simply life – life typically brings you these unhealthy moments to provide you a really good one and this tastes significantly better than something I used to be anticipating.
“It is a life lesson, no? To maintain believing, trusting your self and the crew round you, your procedures, every thing you are doing as a result of, in the end, it pays off.”
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