Next crash – with expensive consequences
Also in 2022 the racing gods don’t seem to mean well with Leclerc: In one showuse with historic cars In mid-May, Leclerc severely damaged Niki Lauda’s legendary Formula 1 Ferrari from 1975: when braking into the “Rascasse“, the last curve on the racetrack, a brake disc breaks on the car, which costs around six million euros, Leclerc crashes into the guardrail. After all, the car is still roadworthy, the driver is uninjured.
2022: Finally the first arrival?
Now the next attempt in a formula race – the sixth. The omens are again not the best. After retiring from the last race in Barcelona and losing the championship lead, Italian newspapers picked on the reliability of the Scuderia-provided race car: “Ferrari nightmare. Bad luck follows the Scuderia and Leclerc in Spain. The engine betrayed him”wrote the Gazzetta dello Sport. Nobody in the motorsport scene doubts Leclerc’s talent and maturity to become the first world champion in a red racer since Kimi Raikkonen in 2007.
The competition could also play along – actually: the former series winner Mercedes has problems in the slow corners, for which the street circuit in Monaco is notorious. In addition, the Ferrari of the year 2022 is faster than the Red Bull of world champion Max Verstappen. So it would have to be Charles Leclerc on the streets he used to “took the bus to school”, just bring it home. What sounds so simple is obviously quite difficult without that important little bit of luck.