Laurent Mekies: “It is not useful to dwell on Charles’ error”

The Frenchman, Mattia Binotto's right-hand man, takes advantage of the country's air to take stock of the Scuderia's first half-season, praise the progress of Carlos Sainz and say all the good things he thinks of Charles Leclerc despite of his weekend mistake.

Published on 27/07/2022 à 09:00

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Laurent Mekies: “It is not useful to dwell on Charles’ error”

Laurent Mekies - Sporting Director of Scuderia Ferrari © Ferrari

A result far from the one you could have hoped for and which was within reach...

I don't think it's useful to dwell on Charles's mistake. These things can happen, even to great drivers like him, and we have already put that behind us. There are still positive points to be drawn from this race, starting with the great competitiveness of the F1-75 on this difficult Paul-Ricard track.

On the evening of round 12/22 of the championship, what do you place in the “plus” and “minus” column?

In the “pluses”, we became competitive again. It was objective n°1 which seems obvious today, but which was not p