It's funny how people spent weeks insisting Charles only cared about beating his teammate.
Meanwhile, Lewis was the first one to tell the media that Charles ended up following his setup direction. Then Charles explained what actually happened.
He said he had two options: completely change his driving style to replicate what Lewis was doing, or keep pushing in his own direction and make the car suit his driving style better.
And he made it very clear which one he chose:
"I went towards the second route."
So where exactly did the "Charles used Lewis's setup" narrative come from?
Somehow, every time Charles makes progress, the conversation gets redirected into "he followed my direction." It almost feels like there's always a need to make sure the takeaway is, "It worked because of me."
The irony is that the driver people accuse of being obsessed with beating his teammate isn't the one making everything about his teammate.
The interviews speak for themselves.
@indegobluee Well tbf leclerc definitely was not doing his best between canada and Austria but yeah he seems to have confidence in the car again, it will be hard to beat these mercs once they sort out their reliability, in either championship but we'll see
@indegobluee I was being sarcastically ironic bringing up the vsc, yes the Mercedes were not as fast at spain relative to the other cars, but both drivers gave the maximum of the car in both races is my point, Mercedes performance is an outside factor of the drivers individual performance
@noobbricks@BaloiAdrian4@thrtysvnth I was sarcastically making a point, there was no luck, Antonelli had an issue, Leclerc was still getting 100% out of the car to make that happen