OPINION
“It is not over yet. The team must respond but this is also the time for Leclerc to step up as a leader”
JOHNNY HERBERT
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These are worrying times for Ferrari. Go back to winter testing and the team looked bulletproof.
There were two early wins for Charles Leclerc in Bahrain and Australia, a 34-point lead after Albert Park – before it slowly started to go Pete Tong… the engine failure while leading in Barcelona began the rot, then came the strategy error that lost Leclerc the victory in Monaco.
And in Baku, Carlos Sainz had a hydraulic failure and when Charles’s engine blew it sounded from the onboard like it ate itself from the inside out! Awful.
The engine problem is potentially a massive issue. First they have to find the problem, then they have to sort it out. And it’s not like these failures are happening at the end of races either.