Charles Leclerc Isn’t Actually Driving On The Limit?

The fact of the matter is that while we may have our own views with regards to the recent Formula 1 Grand Prix at Belgium, which each year is held at the illustrious and historic Spa-Francorchamps, truth certainly is that the race didn’t fetch all that excitement to a certain Charles Leclerc.

And that’s when, oddly enough, it was none other than Charles Leclerc who completed the podium places after the race win was awarded to a certain seven time world champion, Lewis Hamilton followed by the in-form McLaren’s Oscar Piastri.

What’s rather strange, if one must put it that way, is that Charles Leclerc, as it turns out, wasn’t too elated for the lack of a better word, despite doing a lot and putting in a lot of effort at the recent Belgian Grand Prix. Not only did he claim a podium as shared earlier, he was, in fact, lest it is forgotten, the pole sitter at Spa-Francorchamps event.

And yet, while his teammate Sainz was further down in sixth in the end, an effort for which the Spaniard earned 8 points, Leclerc, undoubtedly, fared better in collecting a well-fought sixth podium of the year from fourteen races.

Having said that, what didn’t really work well for the famed Monegasque driver and what about his recent podium-yielding effort at the midst of the Ardennes forest didn’t quite happen as how he would’ve liked?

Apparently, it recently became known that Charles Leclerc wasn’t really able to push his 2024-bound SF 24 Ferrari machine quite as well as he would’ve liked. Which basically meant that the SF 24 wasn’t able to function to the very limit, which is how an ideal F1 driver who competes with a sense of relentlessness would like his machine to perform.

And the reason, it has been recently revealed, was down to the Leclerc-powered SF 24’s bounciness. The same, it was reported, stemmed from certain recently made upgrades to the machine from Maranello.

What this, in effect, tell us is that as a result of the recent upgrades carried out on the SF24 Ferrari, the machine evident at Belgium was a lot bouncier than what Lelcerc would’ve liked and maybe that is the reason why irrespective of the podium finish in the end, the driver of the SF 24 #16 wasn’t the happiest man about town.

Now, how soon can Ferrari look into this problem, if at all, and to what proper end will this be resolved is something that only time can tell. But surely, it must have been a touch weird to be there, among the top three on the grid in such a challenging racing venue and still not really being gleeful despite having put all the hardwork.

Maybe it’s just time or maybe it’s just not the happiest of times always for a certain 26-year-old. What would you say?