Leclerc: 'Radio not always the clear picture, but not in this case'

Despite teammate Lewis Hamilton's downplaying the situation, stating that for him it was a demonstration that the fire to win still burns in him, Leclerc paints an entirely different picture, in his case at least.

Instead of fighting McLaren for the win, or Mercedes or Red Bull for the podium, they were fighting the damaged Williams car of Carlos Sainz for P7, because the other - healthy and quick - Williams of Alexander Albon had alredy checked out to claim P5 ahead of Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli.

"There's the frustration already that you are... I was fighting for P8 at the time, and I was not making any gains," said Leclerc to media including GPblog after the Miami Grand Prix.

"I was really struggling with the car. So there's the frustration of that. And then all the rest (the on-track battle with Hamilton, ed.) it all adds up. So the radio doesn't always, in this case, probably, but the radio is not always the real picture," concluded Leclerc.