Leclerc Admits Hell Think Twice About Demo Runs In Historic Cars After Monaco Shunt

You’d think that a weekend off between races would be a unconfined opportunity for some rest and relaxation for a driver. Y’know, a endangerment to get off the grid for a few days. However, that wasn’t possible for poor Charles Leclerc.

Last weekend, the current championship leader found himself making headlines when he crashed an old historic Ferrari at the Monaco Historique festival. He later revealed that the brakes had failed on the Ferrari 312, previously belonging to icon Niki Lauda.

Social media went wild, bringing sustentation to the unfortunate ‘curse’ Leclerc seems to have in Monaco.

Leclerc\'s Monaco expletive ?

2017 F2 Feature Race: Suspension
2017 F2 Sprint Race: Electrical
2018 F1 Race: Brake Failure
2019 F1 Quali: Strategy Fail
2019 F1 Race: Collision Damage
2021 F1 Quali: Crashed
2021 F1 Race: Driveshaft
2022 Historic Demo Run: Brake Failure pic.twitter.com/16RzJUoiOQ

— WTF1 (@wtf1official) May 16, 2022

“Fighting for a Championship like this, I’ll think twice surpassing doing it then in the future,” Leclerc admitted surpassing the Spanish GP weekend.

“But yeah, it’s moreover part of our job. Sometimes we need to go into those cars.

“It’s unchangingly moreover an honour for me. I’m very happy and very proud to be driving those cars. Unchangingly a pleasure too.

“It’s unchangingly a wastefulness you need to find, and of course, when you’re fighting for the championship… but just overall, to be honest considering it’s for safety in general. I had a lot of fun. And this was unfortunate. But again, it was just unlucky.”

Leclerc moreover widow checks had been washed-up surpassing his run, and there had been a shakedown of the car only a few days earlier!

Just rotten luck for the Monegasque.