The key reason behind Charles Leclerc’s crash in Monaco


The key reason behind Charles Leclerc’s crash in Monaco

In the recent Monaco Historic GP, Charles Leclerc spun and crashed the Iconic 1974 Ferrari 312B3 with all the fault of the car.

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Leclerc had the brakes discs all shattered on the track from his front left corner of the car. With no stopping power on the front left, if Leclerc would have tried the brakes, his car would have turned all the brake strength on the right front disc snapping the car in that direction.

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Going in the Rascasse, Leclerc tried to apply the failed brakes leading him to spin and crashing the back of the car into the walls. Although he got going after the crash, he later had to stop because of the smoke coming out of the car.

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To which Leclerc replied, “I lost the brakes. I lost the brakes! I braked, the pedal was hard, and it went to the floor”.

However, he was lucky to have crashed on the slow turn if it would have been somewhere else it could have been more dangerous with those cars not much safer. 

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“I was lucky to have it at that moment because if I had had it at another place, it was no good… the problem is that I got scared. I arrived normally in the corner.”

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Significance of the 1974 Ferrari 312B3

Ferrari 1974 broken brakes
The image shown above shows how the brake callipers broke down to the floor photo by Motorsport

Niki Lauda was a three-time world champion, with 25 wins and 54 podiums he was one of the legends in the sport. He died in 2019 before the Monaco Grand Prix.

1974 was the first time racing with the Legendary brand Ferrari, he managed to back a second place in his first race for the team in Argentina. He, later on, won two races with this car, the maiden one in Spain and adding another in Dutch Grand Prix.

312B3 that Leclerc was driving in Monaco is owned by Methuselah Racing, with the fault of the machine and not of the driver the car lost a significant amount of the car’s rear part.

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