And I'm still bottom last in the pool, despite that now I'm consistent in getting points and this time I was just 1 point behind yellow cap
. It's not that easy to get way more points than opponents, especially considering that you don't usually predict retirement of leading team driver.
At this point it looks that Verstappen is making his lead significant and it looks more likely that we will have fight for 2nd place between Leclerc and and Perez, rather than fight for the title.
Ferrari fell to the ground with such a big impact that Binotto said that they are not chasing the world championship and never did...then , I come and ask , why is Ferrari in F1 at this point ? To mock the fans ? Because I feel ashamed looking at what Ferrari is doing for so many years with the drivers and fans and they simply don't care and they just gave up on this year already when Charles just made a statement a few hours after Binotto said that with "I see myself as a world champ at the end of the season and it is what it is". We have 2 different statements from the same team , one coming from a driver that is giving 101% out of him every race and a team director who has no idea how to run and prepare an entire team to fight for championships.
To be honest , Ferrari always had this mentality , with" let's see what will happen "...and it was a miracle that Schumacher ended up with them because in my opinion after all this years , he kinda made that championship winning car by himself.
Max is already a champion and he knows that ...there is no real competition at this point for them and I doubt that either Mercedes or Ferrari will somehow overturn this during this year.
While Ferrari race director may want to be cautious about his statements and the driver when has a great car to drive is only natural to shout out that he sees himself as Champion in the end of the season,the fact is that Leclerc is right because he sees that the car is performing really well,now even in really fast tracks where they have suffered before,the upcoming tracks are a mix of slow and fast ones and this clearly favors the Ferraris over the Redbull.If Leclerc is focused good enough on these races he can cut down his distance to Verstappen by a pretty big chunk and let the fight for the title to be decided in the final races of the tournament.
Well...you know that Ferrari is near edge when it comes to new parts , updates and all that ? as the new rules are very strictly and some teams are having a very tough situation because of this new regulations and this is the main problem in F1 right now that both Liberty media and constructors are discussing. Per ex : if Haas continue to change main parts on the car in the next races , they will not finish the last 2 races of the season.
That is actually a Binotto quote when Ferrari was on the lead and as a Ferrari fan and all over italian news that quote was heavily criticised and created a storm that Binotto might not see the end of it for next year.
Leclerc should always be in the championship mental state no matter if the wins races or not , he has what it takes to be a champion.
Now , if you watched the last races and the last years of F1 , you most likely agree that at this point RedBull and Max can lose both titles only by their own mistakes, because even if Ferrari will find the stability of the car , will probably be to late and Mercedes, if somehow they can balance their car to perform without heavily bouncing , it will still be late as overall , RedBull do have the better car this year
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