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Speaking on the latest episode of The Red Flags podcast<\/a>, Hinchcliffe suggested that Leclerc\u2019s recent reactions are \u201cto his detriment\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, Leclerc is still a guy that\u2019s so good over a lap,\u201d Hinchcliffe said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd whether it\u2019s him, whether it\u2019s the car, whether it\u2019s the team, it\u2019s just hard to convert those on Sundays for whatever reason. It\u2019s a combination of things.<\/p>\n \u201cI do still think he gets a bit emotional in the race car to his detriment. You heard in Hungary when things were going south, the way he sounds, he just sounds aggravated. He sounds agitated in the car. And that\u2019s not a good position to be in, right?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Hinchcliffe draws McLaren duo comparison<\/p>\n Hinchcliffe referred to the McLaren duo and their \u201cvery calm approach\u201d.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri with Andrea Stella<\/p>\n \u00a9\u00a0XPB Images<\/p>\n Oscar Piastri <\/a>is typically cool over the team radio – a trait that has served him well in this year\u2019s F1<\/a> title race.<\/p>\n \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t have changed his result there, but there are other examples of it where I compare it to\u2026 we talk about how Oscar is this kind of stone cold, lives right in the middle kind of guy in the car,\u201d Hinchcliffe added.<\/p>\n \u201cYou think back to Lando, Hungary last year, he ends up in the lead of the race because of whatever, and they want to give it back to Oscar. And he\u2019s having a very calm discussion about it on the radio. Hey, we need you to switch back.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018Well, tell him to catch me. I would have undercut him anyway\u2019. He wasn\u2019t yelling, he wasn\u2019t screaming, he wasn\u2019t cursing. Even when he was getting royally fu**ed, he stayed very calm.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cAnd so I do think that\u2019s an area that Charles could benefit from working on a little bit because he\u2019s not a guy who drives faster when he\u2019s angry. Alonso, I think a guy like Alonso does drive faster when he\u2019s angry.\u201d<\/p>\n Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F1 pundit James Hinchcliffe says Charles Leclerc can get \u201ca bit emotional\u201d in the car and should stay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1665,1687,831,372,6537,1469,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-82785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-mclaren","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Lando](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/xpb_1338624_hires.jpg\")
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