Charles Leclerc is pretty confident of overtaking Sergio Perez on the final lap of the F1 GP in Las Vegas and on how they came to fight each other talked.
At the beginning of the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, Ferrari driver Leclerc lost the lead to Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, but the Monaco driver recovered and took the lead. The Ferrari driver appeared to be in a good position to fight for victory until the second safety car arrived.
Verstappen and Perez both pitted, resulting in a race against Leclerc, who was on slightly better tires. The Dutchman managed to overtake him and extend his lead, but the Mexican had to try harder to get past the Monacoan, but in the end he managed to catch up.
However, Leclerc was able to overtake him at Turn 14 on the final lap and secured second place with a great performance. The Monaco player knew that this was the only place where Perez could overtake him. Although Perez regretted his move, he was still satisfied considering how his Grand Prix started.
He had to pit due to a broken front wing, but thanks to the safety car he took a good part of the standings and gradually moved up the ranks. “On the one hand, I’m very happy with today’s performance,” Leclerc said. “I don’t think we could have bet on anything and, yeah, until the last lap, the last corner on the last lap, I gave it my all and managed to get second place.
“On the one hand, of course I was disappointed, because I truly believe that the victory without the safety car was ours. The first stint in the medium was very good and even better than Max Because I was five laps faster.”I took four or five rounds to warm up. we did it really well.
“So I was sure the victory would be ours. Then unfortunately the safety car came in. Max and Czech stopped and I drove five hard laps. I continued, which wasn’t too many, 5 laps. But the problem is that it’s very difficult to restart a used tire when cooling during a safety car in such temperatures. /p>
“And we lost the race. But on the other hand, as Max said, I think the last part of the race was very fun. A lot of adrenaline in the car because of it. I went out and really enjoyed it. I mean, it’s easy to say I only did five laps every time I pitted under the safety car. Whereas behind me I don’t know what Max and Czech are going to do. I did.
“If they hadn’t stopped, it would have been difficult to overtake them behind the two Red Bulls. Ah, yes. Well, I would have stopped them, but now they don’t know what to do It’s too easy to say right now because I know what we did. I think we did the best job on the hard restart, but I think we did the best job with the hard restart, but I also think that we cooled down and then rode again, and especially Czech with the new tires. I really think we lost a lot of power because of the push. We even withstood the temperatures after the safety car.
“Then I had to bring the tire temperature back up.” And it started slipping quite a bit on this tire, which wasn’t great. Yes, we lost quite a bit and I think the tires would have performed better if there was no safety car,” concluded Leclerc, explaining how he prepared for the final lap.
“When I decided to do it, I was pretty confident it would go well,” Leclerc said. “Basically that was my only chance, the only place I could really pass. I also kept in mind that Czech made a small mistake four or five laps before him, so he braked. I also knew that I was a little cautious when I called. p>
“Then on the penultimate lap I started to charge the battery for the last lap and it worked.” Of course it was very close but I was really happy and I really fought. Ta. ”, Leclerc summed up, and Perez, as mentioned earlier, was satisfied with his third and second place in the drivers’ title after the start of the race.
“I have a little mixed feelings because I think it’s quite difficult if you just look at the big picture,” Perez said. “Yeah, if I keep looking back at my race, I got a lot of damage on the first lap, basically damage to the front wing. Everyone stopped on the outside, but I didn’t stop on the first lap. It was.
“Unfortunately, the first goal for me was just not to take damage, because I knew how bad the grip was, and unfortunately I ended up taking this damage. .And from that point on Lewis was the target to secure second place in the championship, so it was just about recovering and trying to get Lewis into first place.But the pace on this hard was tremendous. , that really got me back into racing.
“We passed cars every lap, but we were really, really strong. And it really got us back in the race. And when the safety car came out, we I was really in a race to win, and yes, I passed Charles relatively easily on the first lap, but I couldn’t get past him after that.
Unfortunately, I think I cut the rear wing on my car a little too much, which reduced my top speed quite a bit. Also my neckline. So once I got to the top, I couldn’t get away from Charles. I couldn’t. And Max was in the picture too. I think it was a great comeback overall. It was really bad to lose the place to Charles at the end. He brought me back from Turkey in 2020. Yes, it is. ”
Yesterday was the pass of Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.2023-las-vegas-grand-prix-all-the-angles-of- leexcercs-Sensational final lap pass on Perez.1782991889922728042.html
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