Leclerc clears the air with Sainz after Las Vegas

It’s a Charles Leclerc tense that we had left on the evening of the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Shortly after crossing the finish line, the Monegasque had not hesitated to express his dissatisfaction to his engineer, implying that he had once again “been had” when he had once again been “nice”, playing the team’s game above all.

« I did my job, as always, but being nice gets me in trouble every time. Every time. It's not even about being nice, but respectful. I don't know I'm supposed to say anything, but it's always the same! " he had been able to let go under the helmet while his engineer tried to reason with him, implying that his teammate Carlos Sainz had not really followed the instructions when he had been asked not to rush Charles Leclerc, before finally overtaking him.

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Frédéric Vasseur had promised that he would talk about it with his drivers to clarify things. Inevitably, when he arrived in the paddock in Qatar this Thursday, Leclerc did not escape questions on the subject. And the least we can say is that he was very honest about the situation.

« I don't want to go back to what happened in Las Vegas.he said. In the last two races of the season, we have to do absolutely everything to win the Constructors' Championship. That's all that matters.

Whatever happened in Vegas, we discussed it and everything is fine, that’s the most important thing. I have no doubt about that because we’ve always had a very good relationship with Carlos and we’ve had races where sometimes things didn’t go exactly the way we wanted, but the most important thing is that we discussed it and we move forward. It’s very clear to both of us that we just want to win the Constructors’ Championship and it’s by working as a team that we’ll achieve that and I’m sure there won’t be any problems about that. »

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