woocasz wrote: ↑13 Jun 2026, 17:40
edu2703 wrote: ↑13 Jun 2026, 17:27
This season is set to definitively bury the discussion about Leclerc being a WC contender. Leclerc is a good driver, nothing more. He will never be champion and was never destined to be. With him easily succumbing to pressure, seeing Hamilton consistently ahead of him, he's likely to enter a downward spiral, trying his best to be ahead of Lewis and making mistake after mistake.
The good thing for Ferrari this season is that Hamilton is back to his prime, achieving good results, keeping the car clear of the barriers and getting good results. If Leclerc continues with this nonsense and throwing away important points, he'll have to sit down for an uncomfortable conversation.
Charles crashes out today and suddenly Hamilton fans is quick to jump in and praise Hamilton while putting Charles down!
The definition of outperforming someone is being quicker overall in races and in qualifying. If Leclerc is hitting the wall that still does not mean Hamilton has outperformed him on performance at all.
Without problems with brakes Leclerc would be leading Hamilton by quite big margin by now, so clearly the talk about Hamilton already outperforming Charles is trolling big time.
You're doing the same thing you've accused some of doing. I'm not even sure Leclerc is faster than Hamilton in this formula and with this car.
One garage is biased towards heroics, the other, skill. The former works sometimes, but against a garage who are maximizing skill + operations, what do you do? More heroics? Well, we're seeing the results (2xcrashes in Monaco & 1 in Spain) By the way, when was the last there was a crash in turn 4? You have to be doing something very unconventional.
Let's review race results:
- Australia: Hamilton had much better pace.
- China: Hamilton had better pace.
- Japan: Leclerc had much better pace, particularly on the straights. Take it for what it's worth.
- Miami: Leclerc had much better pace but then dropped it. Had Hamilton not had damage from Colapinto, he'd have had an even better result differential.
- Canada: Hamilton had much, much better pace.
- Monaco: Only qualifying matters; Hamilton was faster. I contend that Leclerc's knife's edge effort was the only reason
for the fastest Q1, but he was likely to bin and he did.
- Spain: He binned it again while Hamilton was on course to set a purple in sector 1.