How Good is Leclerc?
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We saw some aggressive overtaking from Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen in this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix.
After the race, Leclerc said: “It is hard racing, as we have seen with Max in the past. But I’m also an aggressive driver in the way I fight with others.” This will have been a strong message to Verstappen, so let’s look at it from each driver’s perspective.
By lap 17, Verstappen had caught Leclerc and made a strong move going down the pit straight - helped by the straight-line speed of the Red Bull. Leclerc defended pretty heavily, as much as he really could on the wide Bahrain circuit. I think here, he would have wanted to keep Max on the inside, off the racing line and in all of the dust and dirt.
This way, Leclerc had a much better line through turn 1, cleaner - and grippier - tyres and DRS in the next section of track. He actually said that he wasn’t trying to be too late on the brakes into turn 1, as the DRS detection line was in the braking zone. As we know, this line which enables DRS in the next section if a driver is behind another when crossing it, so Leclerc was being pretty clever here, saying:
“I expected it (the overtake) and actually I wanted it. Because I knew that if he wasn’t overtaking me there, he would overtake me on the run to Turn 4 with the DRS.
“So I was on purpose braking very early into Turn 1 to be just behind in the DRS detection and to get it on the run to Turn 4 to get him back. It always worked out.
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