05/07/2026
Interesting because I’ve Heard Leclerc tell the French media at least he changed something after the sprint.
Q: (David Fioux – L’Equipe) Charles, how is it possible, here on your right, how is it possible for things to change so much on a car? Yesterday you’ve talked about philosophical matters on your car. But as far as I’m concerned, I don’t know that philosophy can make a car go any faster.
CL: Yeah, I mean, when I say philosophical, it’s more about small details that just fit my driving a little bit better in a particular phase of the corner. I don’t want to go too much into detail there. But it’s just a few things that I saw on the data on Friday night and I was like, « OK, that might be things that just don’t fit with my driving style. » And we changed those few things from sprint race to qualifying and that was a lot better. So yeah, I was very proud of the work we’ve done to see that because I think this kind of change is not really so black and white. You just don’t look at data and say, « My God, OK, this is what we need to change. » It’s intuition mixed with feeling. Then we went for it and it was actually a very successful direction for me. I was very happy.
HAM : And what gives me confidence is, you know, I’ve, I’ve, you know, coming into this weekend, the simulator said that we should start, um, i-in a much different place with the, with the setup, and I and my engineers started to— decided to stay with one, uh, in, in the direction that we would normally go. Charles started under where he was, where the sim would s-say to go, and then ended up my philosophy and the di-direction that I was taking was ultimately the right one, and, and he migrated that way. And it’s good to see that that direction that I have pushed for is paying off. And, um, and, and, now we just gotta continue to make changes and continue to push. We’ve gotta continue to bring upgrades. Uh, Spa’s gonna be long straights. But, um, yeah. Uh, and ultimately, I’ve gotta do a better job than I did this weekend
