Leclerc Discusses 'Lonely' Race After Winning 2024 United States Grand Prix
F1Monday, 21 October 2024 at 18:49
Updated at Tuesday, 22 October 2024 at 06:07
Charles Leclerc, who won the 19th round of the 2024 season, shared how he felt throughout and after the victorious Grand Prix.
Ferrari drivers came into the race on Sunday, knowing they could potentially have a chance of fighting for the race victory after showing a very promising pace during the Sprint on Sunday, where they scored P2 and P4.
Starting from P4 on the grid, Charles Leclerc couldn't have dreamed of a better start than he had. The Monegasque driver got into the lead of the race already after the first corner, gaining three positions, capitalizing on the battle between Lando Norris and Max Verstappen.
From that point onward, Leclerc drove away from everyone and maintained a comfortable gap at the front, ultimately finishing 8.562 seconds ahead of his teammate Carlos Sainz, who completed Ferrari one-two.
The nearest non-Ferrari car - Verstappen, in third place, finished 19.412s seconds behind the 26-year-old winner of the 2024 United States Grand Prix. Leclerc told the media after the race:
"It feels really good, as every victory feels special for its own reason. Obviously, from the start, I felt really good with the car."
"I was quite confident from yesterday, because even though there were quite a lot of fights yesterday, the car felt great, and we knew that we had a good race pace."
"We were a little bit more sceptical about qualifying, but before was good. I mean, that start, when I got out of Turn 1 into first, I knew that it was all about trying to use the pace of the car that we had yesterday and trying to take care of those tires, and the car felt great."
Although Charles Leclerc himself noted it was a very lonely race, he suggested he would like to have more races like this in the future as he added:
"So from that moment onwards, it was a bit of a lonely race, but it's a good kind of lonely, and I hope we can reproduce that in the future."
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