Charles Leclerc has told himself “not to get carried away” thinking he is now on top of the new F1 cars following his breakthrough win at Silverstone.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Leclerc ended a 38-race win drought stretching back to the 2024 United States GP by winning the British GP last time out, coming after a fallow period for the Monegasque in which he struggled with the feel and balance of his Ferrari – just as team-mate Lewis Hamilton hit top form.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Leclerc had been vocal about his struggles on the brakes, and even switched to Hamilton’s set-up of using Carbon Industrie discs in a Brembo set-up – and made a further breakthrough over the Silverstone weekend, out-qualifying Hamilton for the grand prix before becoming the first team-mate to beat Hamilton at his home race since Nico Rosberg in 2013.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Charting his feelings following the win, Leclerc explained that he “cannot take it for granted” that his struggles are “behind him.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“These cars are very specific, are very different to the way we’ve been driving since we started racing, and so it takes a bit more time to get used to it,” Leclerc told media, including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I was very strong for the first part of the season, then I lost a bit of feeling with the car.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We changed quite a few things with the car, and it took a bit more time than I had wished to get back to the level I wanted, and on top of that, we’ve had some issues on the Sunday that cost me quite a lot of points.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So altogether, it wasn’t a nice situation to be in, but I’m very happy to get out of this situation in this way. However, as I said, it’s still the beginning. It’s only one race, and I must not get carried away thinking that the war is over.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I mean, the battle with this car has been quite a lot recently, and I cannot take it for granted that now it’s behind me. So, I’ll keep working and try to get that feeling more often going forward.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc has told himself “not to get carried away” thinking he is now on top of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797687,"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-797686","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\/797686","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=797686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}