Radio tends to be of little use to young Monegasque Charles Leclerc when he’s full of adrenaline during the race. He betrays his lack of reflexes for reading race. And the latest example was experienced at this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix when he got angry at his engineers racing over the radio. Losing position with Hamilton during the safety car.

The race engineers are looking for ‘old school’ blasts like Kimi Räikkönen with Simon Rennie and Peter Bonington’s endless endurance known as ‘Bono’ with Lewis Hamilton. I don’t remember Since arriving at the Scuderia in 2019, it has been Xavi Marcos who guides Charles Leclerc, and he has to put up with Leclerc’s nervousness.

It is true that the introduction of the safety car at Jeddah did not benefit Ferrari’s interests at all when Lance Stroll’s brake failure on lap 18 forced Race Direction to react. Both Sainz and Leclerc were able to do it “for free” and move on, with the two Mercedes of Russell and Hamilton among other things, before the incident benefiting the interests of the returning Verstappen. I stopped by to exchange. to Ferrari.

It was at this time that communication between Marcos and Leclerc took place, which did not do them much favor: ‘Try pushing from line 1 of the safety car for Hamilton, he just entered the pits. ‘It was too late,’ said the Spanish engineer, as the Mercedes driver had already exited the pits ahead of Leclerc. He had an angry reaction: “Xavi, you have to tell me that first!”

“Understood,” answered Marcos’s reconciler, and “Yes, understood, but…” answered Charles Leclerc.

The Monacan then turned himself in, showing he hadn’t read the race: “I thought we were in no man’s land. We were fighting Hamilton and it was too late to speed up delta time,” he said. has declared.

Fabio Quartararo The 2021 MotoGP World Champion (Yamaha YZR M1) has revealed that he will face the opening weekend of the 2023 season, the Portuguese Grand Prix. With confidence”.

“The 2023 season is finally starting, I’m looking forward to it After a positive result at the Portimao test two weeks ago, I am confident going into this weekend,” said a Yamaha press release.

“We have an idea of ​​what we want to work on for Friday’s session in preparation for the first sprint race on Saturday, but it’s been a long time since the last Grand Prix and I’m sure the fans won’t be able to do that.” Wait for me to get back into action,” emphasized the French Yamaha rider.

Italian teammate Franco Morbidelli said: “Over the long winter break, Yamaha provided a lot of things for us to test. We collected all the data we could and after last week’s official test at Portimao, the data has been analyzed and the team is ready. ”

“The atmosphere in the team is always good, but now it’s even more exciting. We’re starting a new season, so it means everything is possible with a clean slate, so we’re going to do our best,” Morbidelli said.