Within the face of his third-place end on this 12 months’s championship, Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has revealed that he lastly desires to battle for the championship subsequent 12 months.
Though Ferrari discovered itself in a tough place after the summer season races when the SF-24 lacked outright tempo in comparison with Mercedes, Crimson Bull and McLaren attributable to an unsuccessful flooring replace, the Scuderia managed to get itself again on monitor from the Italian Grand Prix onwards.
So profitable was Ferrari’s restoration after Zandvoort, that it managed to shut the hole to the field-leading McLaren to simply 21 factors within the Constructors’ Championship forward of the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. It meant that the Maranello-based outfit had maintained its hopes to clinch its first groups’ title since 2008.
Regardless of the sensational restoration drive from Charles Leclerc on the Yas Marina Circuit which noticed the Monegasque battle his approach up from P19 on the beginning grid to P3, and an excellent second-place end from his team-mate Carlos Sainz, the Scuderia ended up second within the groups’ standings, 14 factors adrift of McLaren.
Reflecting on the fierce battle within the Constructors’ Championship on the FIA Gala that passed off in Rwanda, Leclerc was nonetheless downbeat and dispirited.
“I’m very hungry for subsequent 12 months. Clearly, the frustration continues to be recent from the final race, and it was final week. We now have been preventing with McLaren till the final race.
“However they’ve simply performed higher over the entire season. They deserve the title, and my congratulations go to them and to Max,” Leclerc stated through the FIA Prize-Giving Ceremony.
Regardless of a bumpy interval halfway by means of the season which was induced by an unsuccessful up to date flooring launched at Barcelona, there have been many memorable moments for the Monégasque all through the season.
Leclerc received on house soil in Monaco, in addition to on the house of Ferrari in Monza earlier than clinching his third victory of the season in Texas. The 27-year-old additionally wrote historical past within the opening apply session on the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, having pushed along with his youthful brother Arthur to develop into the primary brothers to drive for a similar workforce in any F1 classes.
Leclerc continued: “So all in all, lots of optimistic moments in a season like this, however after all, coming second or third shouldn’t be what we wish. We need to win.
“However the second half of the season was tremendous optimistic for the workforce, and I am wanting ahead to making an attempt to take preventing for the championship lastly.” Leclerc concluded.
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