After a couple of years of struggling in F1, Ferrari is back in the game to compete for the championship. The Maranello-based team’s car is arguably the fastest car on the grid.
However, their season is still marred with reliability issues and strategic blunders. The season looks out of Ferrari’s hands at 93 points behind their rival, Red Bull.
Thus, a question arises whether the drought of 14 years is taking a toll on Ferrari.
The Italian side last won the title in 2008 and has been vying for it but never succeeding since then.
Charles Leclerc denies 14-year-drought is adding…
So, it was asked their star driver Charles Leclerc whether all this wait is building pressure on them this year. To which Leclerc responded that it’s untrue.
“I mean, I don’t think about this,” said Leclerc. “Even though Ferrari remains Ferrari of 2000, the team is very different, and we are [in] a different place now.”
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“The last few years have been very difficult for us [Ferrari slipped to sixth in the 2020 Constructors’ Championship].
We made an incredible step from last year to this year to fight for wins; obviously, the goal remains to be World Champion.”
“It remains the same goal for me, even though that will now be more difficult.
But it doesn’t add pressure that it has been so many years, and we haven’t won,” he added.