In the next issue of Sportweek, the chat with the two Ferrari standard bearers. Leclerc’s white pasta and Sainz’s faijtas. Golf and play challenges. And then music, travel, idols… before today, with the start of the F1 world championship, the space for their private life is reduced, the two drivers reveal who they are and what they do away from the track
A moment before starting the car, a look at the lives of Charles and Carlos. Before they accelerate and above all before both of them, Leclerc and Sainz, lower that visor which represents a break for them. There is a before and there is an after. There isn’t a pilot who on more or less official occasions hasn’t said it at least a dozen times: “When I lower the visor…”. When it happens suddenly everything changes. The world no longer exists, only an exasperated competitive spirit remains, a craving for competition that seems like a spirit of survival, a pragmatism bordering on ruthlessness. Even Charles, with his good-natured look, even Carlos, with those nice ways of a good boy, when they look at the world from behind that transparent membrane they transform. And therefore, if you wanted to talk a little about life and its surroundings you had to hear them first. Before the longest season in the history of Formula 1. “Today’s drivers are little robots controlled by press offices, sponsors and agents”, we read and hear continuously from those who just can’t help but be nostalgic and to regret real or presumed golden ages. Well, no, it’s not like that. Charles’ many superlatives, Carlos’ always measured and very lucid answers, tell the true life of two of those twenty guys who will be at the center of a global audience for 24 weekends. And they will be there dressed in the color that everyone would like to wear: Ferrari red. Elsewhere you will read about aspirations and technical examinations, about race pace and tire degradation, about the contract of one, Charles, extended for years, and that of the other which has expired and is no longer renewed, so that he, Carlos, will live the whole year between disillusionment and desire for revenge. Here, before starting, let’s take a look at their tastes and their passions. To their days before and after wearing the suit and helmet. To get to know them better, from their own voice. And perhaps to discover them closer.