Leclerc plays the blame game: His tirade a sign of weakness for Ferrari?

After Leclerc had set his final push lap of Q3, he took to the onboard radio incensed, not with his team, but with himself. In the outburst he uttered "f*ck" seven times.

When confronted with this fact, Vasseur highlighted what he believed to be one of Leclerc's main strengths to media present at Silvertstone.

"One of his strengths is that he is able to blame himself," said the Frenchman. However, the former Alfa Romeo team principal does believe that his driver can sometimes take it a bit too far.

"One of his weaknesses is that he sometimes blames himself too much," Vasseur added.

After the timer had reached zero and the checkered flag had dropped, Leclerc opened up the radio and said of his efforts which were only good enough for P6: "F*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck. F*ck that. So f*ck sh*t I am. I am so f*cking sh*t, that’s what I am."

For the Ferrari team principal, tough, it all boils down to perspective: "From a team point of view, I really appreciate it when a driver can say: 'Okay, that was my mistake.'"

"That's positive because it doesn't lead the team in the wrong direction," added the Frenchman, before shedding light on the vulnerable side to F1 drivers.

"They're human, they make mistakes like everyone else - and it's good to have drivers who can admit that," concluding that Leclerc's self-criticism is holistically a positive trait.