Charles Leclerc: "obsessed with extracting the best from the car”

Charles Leclerc has performed solidly so far this season but has been subject to team orders meaning that he is yet to have a race win. The Ferrari driver feels confident that this weekend could be the circuit that he performs best at as he feels confident around the street circuit. 

When speaking about getting the race win Leclerc said “Obviously I am impassioned for this moment to happen - if it will ever happen - and I will work for that.

"But I am not obsessed with it and I don’t think it would be a good way to approach the weekend, only thinking about the win. I am just obsessed with extracting the best from the car.”

“It would be a good sign to have it here," he said to insideracing.com, having won the F2 feature race in Baku in 2017 just a few days after the death of his father.

“I will give it everything and if it comes now or later, I don’t know. I will try to do everything in my hands to do the best result possible.

“I feel somehow particularly confident in street tracks, [and it’s] no exception here because I really love this track and driving as close as possible to the walls without touching them. This is a challenge I like as a driver.”