Charles Leclerc: Last News

Ferrari following a thrilling British Grand Prix as Carlos Sainz took his maiden F1 win.As the Spaniard celebrated a landmark moment in his career, his teammate, Charles Leclerc was downbeat after feeling a potential had got away from him. Leclerc found himself stuck behind Sainz at various points of the race and demanded to be let through.At one point he was, but the race changed following a late safety car which bunched the pack up.

Max Verstappen was left fuming with his Red Bull team as he endured a nightmare British Grand Prix The championship leader was favourite for victory at Silverstone after showing strong pace all weekend, despite being pipped to pole position by the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz. Verstappen led off the line, but the race was immediately red-flagged following Zhou Guanyu’s horrifying crash which him flip upside down and career into the catch fencing.

Gordon Ramsay ripped into a red-faced Red Bull mechanic after he pulled out a questionable garage snack. The celebrity chef was a VIP guest at Silverstone on Saturday to watch the qualifying action.

Christian Horner felt a spin by Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc cost Max Verstappen pole position at the British Grand Prix.Verstappen dominated FP3 earlier in the day and looked set to take pole at a saturated Silverstone. However, the Dutchman looked ragged in Q3, having a spin exiting Stowe and going off at the circuit at Vale on another fast lap.The world champion still had the chance to take pole, but his final push lap was ruined when he had to slow slightly for yellow flags, triggered by a spin from Leclerc, who ended up third on the grid, with the other Red Bull of Sergio Perez fourth.

READ MORE: W series champion Jamie Chadwick expresses doubts over female drivers in "physical" F1 Reeves has visited a number of F1 teams and started qualifying watching from the Aston Martin garage. Sadly for the team, which is based just over the road from the Silverstone circuit, it was a short session with drivers Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll both going out in Q1.

Lewis Hamilton 'should be happy' after Nelson Piquet publicly apologised for using a racial slur when discussing the Brit's collision with Max Verstappen at Silverstone last year - and he says he's surprised by the Briton's response to Piquet's comments. Hamilton, an avid campaigner for racial equality, spoke out passionately on social media regarding the need to 'change the mindset' after footage emerged of the three-time world champion using a Portuguese term that can be translated as the N-word. Hamilton and Verstappen came together at the British Grand Prix last year, causing a collision that sent the Dutchman careering into the barriers before being whisked off to hospital for precautionary checks.

Max Verstappen will have a score to settle at Silverstone this weekend following his controversial clash with Lewis Hamilton last year, according to his father Jos.As the pair diced for the lead at the 2021 British Grand Prix, Verstappen and Hamilton touched at the ultra-fast Copse corner, with Verstappen spearing into the barriers at high speed. The Dutchman was taken to hospital as a precaution but fortunately escaped injury. Hamilton incurred a 10-second penalty for causing the collision but still went on to win the race following a late pass on Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.

Formula 1 ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone has delivered a stinging verdict on Ferrari’s hopes of glory this season.The Scuderia made a stunning start to the season with a one-two in Bahrain and Charles Leclerc scored his second win of the campaign in race three in Australia. But since then the Italian squad’s season has unravelled alarmingly, with poor reliability and a number of crashes, with Carlos Sainz the main culprit.That has allowed Max Verstappen to open up a 46-point lead in the championship standings, and that is over his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez, who is unlikely to mount a genuine title challenge.

READ MORE: Martin Brundle apologises after suffering grid walk mishap at Canadian Grand Prix The pair finished in the same positions, albeit the other way round, in Baku, but the difference in body language after both races could not have been starker, with Mercedes even talking up their chances of taking the fight to Red Bull and Ferrari at British Grand Prix later this month.With that in mind, Brundle is struggling to assess the stage of Mercedes as we approach the midway point of the season. “The Mercedes team are so confusing for everyone at the moment, including themselves,” said Brundle in his post-race column for Sky Sports F1.“On Friday Lewis declared the car was undriveable, which is indeed exactly how it looked, and in a Sky F1 interview he strongly intimated that it was now about making the best of a bad job for the rest of the long season.

Can Alonso win the Canadian Grand Prix? Tell us in the comments section below. Asked about his hopes for the race, he added with a wink: “Let’s see, I think we’ll attack Max on the first corner.”Sainz had to settle for third with Hamilton fourth. It was a great day for the Haas team with Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher completing the top six.

F1 Canadian Grand Prix.Towards the end of the session, Carlos Sainz was hurtling along a straight at the Montreal circuit in his Ferrari, only to have to slow sharply to avoid hitting the creature which had scampered onto the track. It’s not the first time a groundhog has found its way onto the Île Notre-Dame track during an F1 week, with Sky Sports commentator David Croft fondly christening this invader ‘Gary the Groundhog’.“It’s not time to come out of your little burrow,” said Croft.

Formula One fans have slammed Ferrari over their disastrous double DNF at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Ferrari’s weekend in Baku unravelled as both drivers were forced to retire after issues with their cars. Carlos Sainz’s rotten luck this season continued when a hydraulics problem on lap nine saw him park up at Turn-4.The Spaniard had been trailing Max Verstappen in fourth place when he retired for the third time already this season.

Max Verstappen suggested he was unhappy with Red Bull’s choice of strategy as he was again outplaced by teammate Sergio Perez in qualifying for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Fresh from his father Jos’s dig at the team for their tactics during the Monaco Grand Prix, which Perez won with the world champion finishing third, Verstappen questioned over the radio why he had sent out first at the end of Q3. A driver is sometimes sent out just behind their teammate so they can benefit from a tow, something particularly important in Baku due to the street track’s very long start-finish straight.

“He needs to get penalised this guy, he has to," argued a furious Albon. "This is ridiculous.

LIVE – Updated at 08:20The Azerbaijan Grand Prix is fast approaching, with Formula One back on its worldwide travels after back-to-back races in Europe of late. Red Bull and Ferrari still lead the way after Sergio Perez’s triumph in Monaco, but Max Verstappen now leads the driver standings after just one podium finish for Charles Leclerc since he won the Australian Grand Prix in April.

LIVE – Updated at 17:55Sergio Perez has extended his Red Bull contract to 2024 after triumphing in a chaotic and thrilling Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday, when Charles Leclerc’s dreams of winning on home soil were shattered by his flat-footed Ferrari team. Leclerc navigated a rain-hit start – delayed by more than an hour following a deluge of rain just a dozen minutes before the lights were due to go out on Formula 1’s most famous race – to control the early stages. But the Monegasque’s race fell apart when Ferrari’s strategy was exposed by Red Bull.

Red Bull driver claimed his first win of the 2022 Formula One season in Monaco as he crossed the line ahead of Ferrari's Carlos Sainz and reigning champion Max Verstappen.

Ferrari team that they 'cannot do that' after his woes in his home Grand Prix in Monaco continued.The Ferrari ace held pole position for the second year in a row but headed in 2022 with a sorry record of never finishing a race in the French principality throughout his racing career and, while that run would end, there was still further disappointment in Monte Carlo.Rain led to a delayed start and a change in race strategy across the grid, with Ferrari making the first move in the pits to change to dry tyres after calling both Leclerc and teammate Carlos Sainz into the pit at the same time.Leclerc came in after his teammate but, immediately after his entry to the pit lane, was told to stay out but the message came too late and Red Bull capitalised, performing an undercut to see Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen gaining places.Ferrari were unable to overhaul their rivals, with Leclerc suffering the pain of not securing a podium finish despite his pole position on the grid as he came home fourth - with Perez winning, Sainz coming in second and Verstappen third. Leclerc could not hide his disappointment following a weekend where he will have hoped to achieve a lot more and it was clear that he points the finger of blame towards his team."No words, no words.

Max Verstappen avoided a penalty in the Monaco Grand Prix for what appeared to be a clear infringement.The race in Monte Carlo was full of drama from start to finish, with the beginning of the race delayed due to heavy rain before eventually starting behind the safety car - and further drama was to follow.Ferrari, who started with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz in first and second on the grid, held the lead in the race but were caught out by a Red Bull overcut in the pits.Leclerc was left furious with the pit call, screaming at his team over team radio, and, when Verstappen pitted later on, came out behind his title rival.However, pictures from the defending champion when he exited the pit lane appeared to show that he had crossed the yellow line and should have been handed what should have been a penalty for a rather obvious infringement.Race officials did not take any action against the championship leader, however, and it left many fans on social media scratching their heads - with @Julio_ziviani declaring: "Verstappen not investigated in his box exit.

Charles Leclerc was fuming at his team following their pit decision in a dramatic Formula One Grand Prix in Monaco.

Max Verstappen has slammed his teammate Sergio Perez for his 'irritating' crash in Monaco qualifying and has suggested that drivers could use foul play to force a red flag in sessions. Saturday's qualifying session came to a premature end following a chaotic sequence of events in the final minute that saw three cars crash, with Perez losing control of his rear end in the final corner before the tunnel section and Carlos Sainz then did the same, hitting the stationary Red Bull.Elsewhere on the track, Alpine's Fernando Alonso put his car in the wall and the red flags were waved, denying Verstappen another lap and an opportunity to potentially improve on his fourth-place start for Sunday's race.That meant it was the second year in a row that the Monaco qualifying session has been brought to a close with a red flag, with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc crashing out last year - and his crash ensured he'd start on pole, though he ended up unable to start the race.Verstappen has suggested that drivers could utilise that tactic to preserve their ranking in the session, as there isn't any punishment for crashing out.“It is irritating and a pity of course that the one who put it in the wall was my teammate.