Charles Leclerc mentioned he threw every thing he had at Sergio Perez in his try and cross the Crimson Bull driver to win the Singapore Grand Prix.
The Ferrari driver hounded his rival after the ultimate restart after drivers switched to slick tyres on the drying monitor. However regardless of Perez locking his brakes a number of occasions into flip 14, Leclerc couldn’t discover a method by.
“I wasn’t shut sufficient sadly every time he had these lock-ups,” mentioned Leclerc. “I don’t suppose it was particularly right down to how prepared his tyres have been, I feel he did few errors originally which is once more regular in these circumstances. However I wasn’t shut sufficient to truly try an overtake, sadly.”
Leclerc mentioned he needed to take dangers to get near Perez as a result of attempting to overhaul meant going off-line onto the damp a part of the monitor.
“All the things was actually on the restrict,” he mentioned. “I imply, with the soiled air in circumstances like this, the slightest mistake, you pay it large time.
“So I did few errors, I used to be simply attempting to be as shut as doable as a result of I needed to make, principally, the overtake on the straight. I couldn’t actually go on the braking zone and brake later as a result of I didn’t actually understand how was the monitor within the inside and I didn’t need to take that threat.
“I had one lap the place I used to be actually shut and I truly considered going within the inside and braking later, however for me it was not price it so I used to be simply ready for the best alternative. That sadly didn’t arrive on the finish.”
After one mistake Leclerc dropped out of DRS vary of Perez. From there on he by no means bought shut sufficient once more, and he completed over seven seconds behind his rival.
“I used to be fairly stunned as a result of as quickly as I misplaced the DRS I feel it was precisely at a time the place additionally Checo’s tyres began to work correctly and sadly then I misplaced it slightly bit,” he mentioned.
Leclerc mentioned his automobile was stronger after switching from his worn intermediates to contemporary slick tyres.
“I pushed rather a lot after which within the final 10 laps he began to drag away once more. However general I feel the efficiency was additionally good on the inters, it’s simply that clearly it was not super-wet so the tyre temperatures would go fairly excessive after which I might lose fairly a little bit of grip every time I used to be behind him.
“After security automobile we might all the time be fairly robust. However I feel there’s additionally issues that we will analyse from this race as a result of Crimson Bull appear to be very, superb after six or seven laps, we’re superb within the first six or seven laps and we’ll look into that.”
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