LePerc

UNC, Cowboys, Ferrari 1644 55

[f #7inMelbourne @fvaeey]

i’m crying carlos realized he was putting pressure on his wrist and immediately took his hand off the ground

[luna¹⁶ 🍒 @2000SLECLERC]

CHARLES LECLERC BAKU 2026 HIGHLIGHTS 🔥🔥🔥

[clara @leclercsletters]

fourth fastest car = p4

[marianne @marrlec]

pole or wall has never been more real i fear

[clara @leclercsletters]

BLACK SUIT AND CAP FOR CHARLES IN SINGAPORE!!!!!!! WOWOWOWOW

[mary ✧ @marydocharlito]

manifesting another one soon

[Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm]

tennis has quietly become my second favorite sport over the last couple years and the fact that slander tweets have now reached my algorithm means there is no going back. i have arrived. this is my formal announcement

[clara @leclercsletters]

race promised to be chaos but when my driver needed it the chaos didnt come

[Charles Leclerc @Charles_Leclerc]

Not how I wanted the weekend to go.
Thanks for all the messages. Physically, that was a big one but I’m okay. Emotionally, it hurts even more for something like this to happen here at home, in front of all of you, the tifosi.

Thank you for the incredible welcome and support all weekend. Monza with you is always something so special. ❤️

[Leclerc al Gaib @sharl_leclerc16]

ok anyways #toughtimesneverlast #onlytoughpeoplelast

[Carlos Sainz @Carlossainz55]

🇮🇹 Primero, me alegra que Charles esté bien. Hemos hecho buena carrera dadas nuestras limitaciones. La parada perfecta con VSC y el buen ritmo del final me han permitido ganar posiciones en las últimas vueltas. ¡Con ganas de Madrid!

👉https://t.co/zJvkOZHT5D

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#CarlosSainz

[clara @leclercsletters]

tough times never last. things will get better again.

[Autosport @autosport]

This shot of Charles Leclerc driving in a Michael Schumacher inspired helmet and livery ❤️✨

[clara @leclercsletters]

CHARLES LECLERC. WHAT A PICTURE.

[clara @leclercsletters]

THE AURA IS INSANE.

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

Home is calling.

[marianne @marrlec]

my heart will not handle Madrid & Baku back to back because my driver is a bit insane

[clara @leclercsletters]

"win or lose, ferrari must be loved. yesterday, today and tomorrow, leclerc forever one of us"

[CL16 inside 🇲🇨 @CL16_inside]

Charles : « THE TEAM initially asked me at the beginning of the lap TO BOX, BUT at the END of the LAP, THEY ASKED ME TO STAY OUT. so that's what i did. »

#F1 #DutchGP 🇳🇱

[Zach Brown @the_zb_]

There’s so much odd misunderstanding here about this race concerning Ferrari. Set your driver preferences aside, just observe facts.

On the M LEC stint, Lewis was closing somewhere around 7 tenths a lap. Overtaking isn’t easy here.

Ferrari tell Leclerc to box opposite Russell. He stays out as instructed, the point of which is to build an offset.

They give a counterintuitive instruction that they want to box the next lap, which would mean if they’re really going to box and are racing each other, it’s not in his best interest to wave anyone by.

Charles asks for clarification. He gets no response. He then says “hello????”, to which they respond “we will come back to you.”

Nonsensically, they tell him to box WAY LATE on his lap, and he goes around for 1 more.

Lewis feels aggrieved because he can make a case that he loses around 1.5s in this process. Leclerc feels aggrieved because they’ve made him do what you cannot do if you’re boxing opposite someone, coming in a lap or two later and eliminating the aim of an offset and taking the worst time loss position.

But Lewis’ vocal complaints about them running him long? Utterly unfounded. The foresight to keep him out until an opportune VSC from Ocon transforms his race. It gains him 8-10s on Track from the cheaper stop relative to those who boxed earlier. More than overcoming any perceived losses by letting the two Ferraris race.

They also make the call to box Leclerc behind Lewis during that VSC, unnecessarily, in order to make sure to keep him behind Lewis and to separate them.

Two instances there where Ferrari benefitted Lewis with some decision making, and one moment where he feels aggrieved by losing maybe 1.5s that was WAAAAYYYYY more than made up for time-wise by the other two decisions.

I get that some people don’t want the pilots fighting on track, basically ever. That was not allowed in the Bottas era at Mercedes. So you can disagree that they allow that, even on alternate strats. If we were truly fighting for anything other than the two pilots against one another? Maybe you can make a case. But we’re clearly not.

So, acting like Ferrari somehow completely botched Lewis’ race and cost him an incredible possible result? Nonsense. You can argue they shouldn’t have let them race if you want, but their management of the Ocon VSC and intentionally choosing to artificially place Leclerc behind during that VSC was a transformative decision that brought Lewis forward to a spot he otherwise wouldn’t have been close to.

This is how it is.