“He’s very disappointed,” Danica Patrick believes 2022 F1 title is slipping away from Charles Leclerc’s reach


“He’s very disappointed,” Danica Patrick believes 2022 F1 title is slipping away from Charles Leclerc’s reach

Danica and Charles

Charles Leclerc’s 2022 season is turning into a nightmare after getting off to a spectacular start in the inaugural race of the season in Bahrain. Former IndyCar driver turned F1 analyst Danica Patrick has recently indicated that the Leclerc’s challenge for this season’s Driver’s Championship is slowly fading away.

Danica believes that time is slipping away for Leclerc and Co. and has suggested that it is going to be in their best interest to come up with solutions quickly.

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The Monegasque has started from pole position in the last four races but has not managed to convert even one of those poles into a victory for one reason or the other.

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Moreover, after Azerbaijan’s DNF Leclerc is now 34 points behind Max Verstappen and has slipped to third in the Drivers standings behind Sergio Perez.

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Ferrari had their worst outing in Baku where Carlos and Charles bowed out of the race with reliability issues putting a stop to their progress.

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Danica Patrick on Charles Leclerc’s woes

Danica Patrick
Danica Patrick

The experienced F1 Analyst Danica Patrick has said this about Leclerc and Ferrari’s problems, “Especially when you’re leading – that’s like the worst situation that you can possibly have.”

Carlos went out early so Ferrari clearly has some issues. At the beginning of the season, Red Bull had a few glitches here and there but Ferrari has taken over with that.”

Including Baku, Charles Leclerc has now had three continuous bad weekends and Danica believes this is something that one cannot afford to do when they are in a Championship fight.

While dwelling deep over Leclerc’s woeful outings Danica has said, “I’m sure Charles is feeling pretty defeated at this point in time, to be leading in a couple of races and have technical issues take you out.”

There’s no room for any more than maybe one DNF for those things in Formula 1 – there’s just not enough races.”

You definitely got that feeling from him in the interviews, he’s very defeated, and I would be too because you feel the slipping away of the championship, especially when you’re up against somebody like Max who’s just so aggressive and so strong.”

Charles Leclerc
Charles Leclerc

And he’s still so fast even with the issues at the beginning of the season.”

It’s gonna be tough to overcome this, and also ‘Checo’ is right there in the championship now too so it’s not just him and Max – it’s ‘Checo’ too.”

Danica has very accurately pointed out the fact that Leclerc has now got two opponents to deal with during the current season and if the Monegasque is to make a comeback, then the upcoming Canadian Grand Prix is a good place to get back into the groove of winning races.

Only time will tell whether he would be able to do it or not. What do you guys think about Leclerc’s 2022 title prospect?

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