Charles Leclerc labelled as “too nice” as concerns raised ahead of Lewis Hamilton arrival
Is Charles Leclerc "too nic🍃e"? One former F1 driver thinks so🏅.
Former F1 driver Robert Doornbos believes 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc is “too nice” to become a world champion.
Leclerc will team up with seven-time F1 world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari from 2025.
While he is widely-regarded as the fastest driver in F1, Leclerc h🍎as won just five races during his stint with Ferrari.
Leclerc has generally had the edge over teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz, but the latter has taken Ferr𓆏ari’s two most recent victories.
The🌞 Monegasque was on the end of Sainz’s stern defence in the China sprint race.
Sainz ran Leclerc wide at the hairpin as the pair went side-by-side, losing crucial ground to the Red Bull of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez.
With Hamilton likely to pose a tougher challenge internally,🤡 concerns about how “nice” Leclerc ♓is has been raised.
Doornbos, who raced for Red Bull briefly in 2006 - is unsure whether Leclerc is as ruthless as Hamilton or 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.
“Leclerc is too nice to be World Champion,” he told Ziggo Sport. “🎀A Hamilton or a Verstappen, that is not ♓possible with Leclerc.
“Suppose Ferrari gets the best car n🍌ext year, then Hamilton will eat [him].
“Leclerc doesn’t seem harsh to mꦆe when I look at the mistakes he makes and how he is with his♓ engineers.”
2016 F1 world champ🌞ion Nico Rosberg also raised a similar point on ho♓w likely there is going to be friction between Leclerc and Hamilton at Ferrari.
Rosberg famously fell out with Hamilton during their various title battles, with the German deploying all sorts of tactics to try and get the upper hanꦰd.
He said🎶 on Sky’s F1 broadcast: “We’re all looking forward to that dynamic. Charles doesn’t seem like&nꦐbsp;someone who goes into conflict too much with his tea-mates, that will make it easier.
“From that 𓆏point of view, may൩be it won’t be too extremely spicy.
“But, nevertheless, I mean, Charles 🍃is probably the second-best qualifier out there after Max Verstappen, one could possibly s🌞ay at the moment.
“ಞSo, it’s going to be a tough, tough battle for both really and I think the level could be pretty similar, so it would be great to watch.”
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