Leclerc: “With five wins we can become champions in 2022”

The performance and reliability of the new Ferrari F1-75 during the first three days of winter testing this year in Barcelona reinforced the views of F1 pundits – including Mercedes’ Toto Wolff and RBR’s Helmut Marco – that Scuderia has the potential to step in this year Battle for the Formula 1 Championships.

Until now, the people of Maranello have avoided talking directly about the championship, but that has now changed with Charles Leclerc’s comments on a French TV channel. Monegasque spoke about his ambition to claim five victories in 2022 which he said could earn him the Drivers’ title.

Leclerc, who has two GP wins to his name so far, underlined his goals for 2022: “Five wins would be great. “If we perform consistently, five wins can be enough to win the world championship.”

And he justified his ambitions by saying: “The last two years have been difficult. The pressure on Ferrari it’s always great. But we reacted as a team and prepared well for the new set of rules this year. “The test days in Bahrain are very important to prepare for the first race of the year.”

In the meantime, the Monegasque is of course keeping a low profile – especially since nobody knows how to balance the top with this year’s completely revised cars: “We remain vigilant because we do not yet know where we are. But we have strong motivations and want to fight at the top.

Also in 2019 we thought we had good speed after the first tests, but as the Mercedes the upgrades (from his car of the time) we found we were a lot behind than we thought., concluded Leclerc. We remind you that this week Mercedes travels to Bahrain with a wide package of upgrades of the new W13, so big that many are even talking about a brand new B version of its car.