Former F1 driver Karun Chandok has stated the next three grands prix are \u201ccritical\u201d for Charles Leclerc to keep momentum on his side of the garage.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Monegasque has been unable to match the results of team-mate Lewis Hamilton of late, with the seven-time champion winning his first race with the team last time out in Barcelona.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Leclerc has also found himself in the barrier too frequently for his liking with shunts at the last two events.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Assessing his recent run of disappointing form, Chandhok told Sky F1: \u201cMonaco was a massive disappointment for him.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was there with Lewis, but then complained of brake issues all weekend long, had a crash, then had this crash in qualifying in Barcelona, again his own mistake.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cHe turned into Turn 4 a little bit shallower than he had on his previous runs, ended up on the dusty part of the track, and then off.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was fast again in Barcelona, same as in Monte Carlo – crashed in qualifying, of course, in Monte Carlo as well.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hamilton currently leads Leclerc by 40 points in the championship and has been labelled as Mercedes’ biggest threat since winning in Barcelona two weeks ago.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Chandhok has insisted Leclerc must focus on overcoming the deficit to his team-mate in the coming rounds or risk seeing an intra-team change over where Ferrari places its priorities.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is where Charles has got to try and just get a bit more control of his own season,\u201d he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re at a phase where we’re counting down to the summer break.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re going to be here, we’re in Silverstone for the British Grand Prix next weekend, and then Spa.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThese three weekends are critical for Spa for Charles not to lose the internal team momentum.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Karun Chandok has stated the next three grands prix are \u201ccritical\u201d for Charles Leclerc to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-763787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}