Charles Leclerc’s patience detonated the moment he crossed the finish line in Las Vegas, unleashing a blistering, expletive-laden tirade that exposed just how fed up he is with Ferrari’s chronic shortcomings. His qualifying run—already a deflating ninth-place effort—became the final straw as he branded the team’s display “f**king embarrassing,” a verdict delivered with the venom of a man who’s been pushed past his limit.
Ferrari’s struggles were on full display, with Lewis Hamilton marooned at the bottom of the timesheets and offering his own damning radio assessment. Leclerc, meanwhile, found himself outpaced by midfield contenders like Hadjar, Lawson, and Alonso—an indignity that only intensified the sting. The moment he killed the lap, he tore into the team’s inability to give him anything resembling grip, lamenting a car that felt more like a roulette spin than a race machine.
Addressing the media afterward, Leclerc traced this Achilles’ heel all the way back to 2019, claiming Ferrari’s wet-weather frailties have plagued every era of his tenure. The irony wasn’t lost on him: the conditions that once showcased his talent in junior series have become a recurring nightmare in red. His tone carried the weight of years of déjà vu—each season offering the same flaw dressed in slightly different misery.
He went further, confessing that even the collective experience of Hamilton and former teammate Carlos Sainz hasn’t cracked the code. According to Leclerc, the car remains maddeningly capricious—an unpredictable beast that punishes commitment and blindsides the driver with inconsistent feedback. Ferrari, he insisted, has turned the machine “upside down,” exhausting every avenue without discovering a cure for its grip-starved personality.
With Ferrari president John Elkann recently telling his drivers to “talk less,” the Las Vegas fallout couldn’t have been more ill-timed. Instead, the night amplified the scrutiny on Leclerc and Hamilton as they struggled to extract coherence from a car determined to embarrass them. Leclerc’s radio eruption wasn’t just a moment of rage—it was a public summary of long-festering exasperation that Ferrari can no longer ignore.
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