Charles Leclerc: “An equivalent status at the start of the season”

While team instructions resurfaced in the worst light in F1 during the Russian Grand Prix within the team Mercedes, Charles Leclerc does not hide his point of view on this subject, he who will join the Team Ferrari in 2019.

The Monegasque recalls, in the F1 podcast, that he will benefit from the same chances as his teammate Sebastian Vettel at the start of the season next March in Australia.

“As in every team, you start the year with an equivalent status, but at some point there is one driver who can fight for the championship and not the other, argues the pilot Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team.

So, I think it's normal for the second driver to help the first, which I'm willing to do if I'm the second and I no longer have my title chances. Other than that, I don't think I'm going there to be a second driver. »

Pressure management

FIA Champion F2 2017, Charles Leclerc also highlights the obligation of results which arises from this transfer within the Italian team, which has been seeking to regain a world title since 2008 among the Manufacturers, and 2007 among the Drivers (with the coronation of Kimi Raikkonen).

“If I'm not good enough next year, I should be let go by Ferrari, and that would be totally understandable on my part. underlines Leclerc. That's how I see things. If I'm good, I deserve to stay, if not, I deserve to stop. This takes a lot of pressure off the shoulders. »