it looks to me like Sainz more consistently has an easier time with the car than Lecrash, Lecrash can be an amazing driver but his high peaks come with some savage valleys.

@@unfortunately_fortunate2000nobody cares or asked for your trash opinion and if you thing lecerc is a crasher then thats all i need to know that you are clueless

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Saintz: Consistency, adaptability, and genuine speed based upon impeccable race-craft. LeClerc: Moments of greatness, rigid style, and speed through risk. This is why LeClerc is good in qualifying. He is a hot-lapper, not a racer.

Well Leclerc is meant to beat Sainz most of the time, so when that happens there isn't much to say

@@inahole2678according to who? sainz is a great driver, anyone who says otherwise is ignorant

@@sebrr According to Ferrari, Sainz got the boot instead of Leclerc for Hamilton

Look at the likes ie:says everyone​@@sebrr

Exactly, If they made this video after 4 races last year fair enough but Leclerc has had a great start to the year

The Ferrari is still insanely fast over 1 lap. They had the best quali car in Bahrain and Australia yet both Sainz and Leclerc bottled pole in both quali sessions. In the other 2 race weekends it was the 2nd fastest quali car. If Leclerc can‘t beat Sainz in quali then it‘s clearly not about any characteristics of the car but rather Leclerc underperforming/ Sainz overperforming. Leclerc will turn 27 this year and is still nowhere near consistent/complete enough to ever challenge for a championship against someone like Max in comparable machinery.

@@Reaz399🗿

​@@Reaz399 Carlos is turning 30. Can he have the consistency to challenge Max?? You say all this nonsense of Charles not being consistent. Can Carlos challenge Max??

@@notorious_nrsa Of course he can‘t but nobody ever believed that Sainz is a world championship calibre driver? Sainz has always been a slightly above average driver at best throughout his career while Leclerc always gets generational talent shouts from some delusional fans who still believe that he‘s some kind of Schumacher regen. As I said he‘s almost 27 now and really hasn‘t improved at all since 2019 which is actually truly sad if you think about it.

@@Reaz399 I remember how we were told that he was destroying Vettel in the last two years of Ferrari for Seb, but somehow Leclerc isn't being destroyed by Sainz?

Didnt he have grip problem with tires that hadent yet warmed, when his qualifying lap started, that costed him with finish 8th in the qualifying, but he had great race still finishing 4th in the race only behind the two Red Bull drivers and his teamate.

@@Jout8-re1ij Yep absolutely correct, but despite having very little to no grip for his final Q3 run he was still only a tenth behind his teammate at Suzuka.

Honestly its not an issue, if Charles at his worst is 1 tenth of his teammate at his peak then it fine

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He is mediocre at best

He is not good enough under pressure

@@alexandergrant5051 He's better than mediocre. I believe he will end the season ahead of Carlos.

@@alexandergrant5051 Not trying to come off condesending but you have to be a brand new fan if you calling Leclerc mediocre. Either that or your ego for another driver is clouding your judgement.

Is he though?

He's got he sucks as a driver, and the eurocentric garbage can be smelled from the moon on Leclerc.

...or PTSD from not being a good a driver as his teammate.

@@johnvaleanbaily246 maybe or maybe not

@@johnvaleanbaily246 That's not what their head-to-head stats show.

But he hasn't always had bad cars, the Ferrari of 2020 was terrible, 2021 better. The Ferrari's of 2019, 2022, 2023,2024 are race winning cars. I think we all guilty of thinking Charles is a wonder talent but at 27 years of age still can not put a consistent season together, is weak under pressure.

f a c t s

He doesnt care about Money he wants to be the best driver in the world nothing less

Well tbf at the start of 2022 he did show some glimpse of being able to outdrive Max, then Ferrari started to Ferrari and the RB18 started to skyrocket that's when Leclerc started to crash and lose control. We are actually lucky that we will see him along Lewis in 2025, then we will be able to really know if he is at a elite driver level. Carlos is able to optimize and take the best out of a chaotic race, but Charles will outperform not just Carlos, most drivers on the Grid if all performance (speed, pace, etc...) things align. In other words, Carlos is a better Mario Kart player, while Leclerc is a better Gran Turismo player.

He had 7 or 8 front row starts in a row until australia. The only thing stopping him finishing on the podium in all those races was reliability. Hes had the best race pace and tyre management so far this year. Hes just had two subpar quali sessions and your writing him off. If he can get the quali prep right (which he already had in the first two races) and Ferrari can find the 2-3 tenths they need with the upgrade, it will be like the start of 2022 where he will be as good as max, just not in a car that blows up every 3 seconds and is much slower on the straights.

@@dylanburston7453 Leclerc was able to go toe to toe with Verstappen when the Ferrari was the faster car, and even then he bottled it multiple times. Adding to that his sub-par driving in changeable conditions and his okay wet weather-driving, it will be difficult for him to beat Verstappen over a season, especially in high pressure race after high pressure race. That's where Hamilton/Verstappen/Alonso thrive.

@@fritsieboiker8449 He bottled it once, and the cars were strong in differnt areas. The Ferrari was better in the corners, and the RB had better top speed and tyre wear, which meant it was a better race car when it was close, which more often than not it was. Leclerc cracking under pressure is a huge myth perpetuated by once incedent he had 2 years ago. His best performances come under pressure. Monza 2019 Most of the races in that shitbox in 2020 Brazil 2022. Took the car out of the wall lap one, back of the feild, and overtook everyone up to his teammate. AD 22/23 when 2nd the the WDC/WCC was on the line In fact, most of the end of 2023. He was the best driver on the grid from Suzuka on. Charles makes less mistakes than Lewis, and a similar amount to Fernanado, but had more pace than both of them. Max isnt a fair comparison (for 2023) as they were practically in differnt sports, but in 2022 Charles made one less mistake. And had it not been for his engine blowing in two of the races max made mistakes, max would have lost more points because of them His driving in a changable weekend needs some work, for example austria 2023, where sprint was wet and he was ok, and the race was dry and he was insane. That had alot to do with the car tho, as it had a stalling beam wing which made it super unpredictable and caught both drivers out even in perfect conditions. It hit leclerc more because hes more instinctive than carlos, who had lots of differnt cars in his career. But his wet weather driving itself is fine If you give Charles a car for a entire season, and a team that doenst fuck you over (which is now close to being the case) he would be a match for Verstappen.

He is excellent, but no driver has more crashes in quali than Leclerc. He and Sainz both have too many in-race crashes. As OP said, the ability to always consistently deliver their best is a differentiator. Hamilton has never been good at adapting to difficult cars, but he’s possibly the most consistent ever when his car is great.

Agreed. This is just because Carlos finished ahead of Charles in the 3 races both entered. But I guess in order to praise Carlos you necessarily have to say Charles is not getting it right.

Bro he's been at Ferrari for almost 5 full years and still struggling...

@@TheDian101 Except all the previous times in the 5 years he wasn't struggling. 1 bad weekend that's it. Other drivers have been at teams longer and still struggle.

Top 4 finishes in the clear 2nd best car isn’t anything special.

@@michaeltelfer3483 I'm a Charles fan myself so to say he hasn't been struggling is just outright outrageous to me man. I mean Sainz has been putting Charles to shame for 2 years now and Charles has always been at least in my eyes the #1 Driver at Ferrari. I really want him to put on a championship battle but between him and Ferrari I don't think its feasible.

Sainz has literally been doing the bare minimum, as has charles, people act like sainz is a god for winning a race when max had problems, and people forget how Ferrari literally told Leclerc to not fight sainz in order to bring home the 1-2

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@@johncitizen306 Uh?

@@soundscape26 you'll just have to imagine the spaces

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He's got the contract so I doubt he needs your sympathy

he wa managing that’s why

people tend to forget Lewis' Pace, Max might have the V type turning, being fearless and aggressive, but Hamilton in a dominant car has always resulted in incomparable Pace, I think 2025 will still be Redbulls, but if Ferrari put their stuff together for 2026 and give Lewis a Pace capable car, he will smoke the grid.

Yes because Ferrari is in so much need of marketing🙃

Hamilton beat both Ferrari drivers last season in a worse car and almost beat Perez for P2 if not for bad luck. He also just qualified P2 “Not the driver he was” but still in a different league to Sainz regardless

Hamilton not being in his prime doesn't mean he still cant outperform most of the drivers on the grid. Drivers like him, verstappen and alonso don't need to be at their best and could still wipe the floor with majority of the grid

Mate he was still beating carlos with the saturday car and there is no reason he should be worse than carlos now other than adaptability

He just isn't elite. And he gets respect for what he is. He will not get respect for something he's not

@@FEARYOYOYO he has infinite more ferrari wins in these most recent 2 seasons compared to leclerc. seems to me like he's the GOAT

Being British

Beat Leclerc by more than a quarter of a second every qualy

@@doghat1619 "infinite more wins" lol If Ferrari hadn't messed things up, he'd have won a lot more than Sainz in the last 2 seasons

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Exactly

I get it in a way. They have make content and the past week has been so dead. It also kind of shows the difference in standards beetween Sainz and Leclerc. Leclerc has a slightly below his standards performance, headlines everywhere. But when Sainz doesn’t perform no one talks about it.

I don't get it. How can you compare Hulkenberg, who has no podiums, to Leclerc, who has 32 podiums and 5 wins, and say "he's no Norris", while Norris hasn't won even one race. How hard is it to stop criticizing everyone and appreciate the quality of f1 drivers?

@@lore-lv2yo you can't win with these people, leclerc is and will always be a star driver who is in the conversation for a future champ. they just can't accept that sainz is not part of that talk.

Because those tracks had high temperature so not much tyre warmup needed

If hamilton can just be a good backup driver to leclerc next year other than challenge him then I think he is a better choice than Sainz but if he has gotten too old for even that then definitely big mistake

Hamilton at this point can't do that anymore and he will be even older in 2025

Mate, before Australia he was on 7 or 8 front row starts in a row, and the only thing that stopped them turning into podiums was a DNS and the Bahrain break issue. And hes had the best tyre wear/ race pace in the lat 3 races

Big picture maybe. For the brand. But for the race team? Nah. Sainz Leclerc is the winning combo.

Hamilton finished 3rd last season in the 3rd fastest car last season and all of a sudden, Carlos Sainz is "better". F1 fans are so reactionary, he's been better in 2024 but we've only had 4 races.

If the ideal scenario for Ferrari is signing Hamilton, then it should have happened 7-8 years ago.

@@battleofwills7189 I disagree... I just think these Mercedes cars since 2022 have been complet shitboxes that both Hamilton and Russell haven't been able to tame (no driver can) as Scott said in the video. At the end of the day, all will be revealed in 2025. My prediction is that Hamilton will back to his best in a very stable and competitive Ferrari.... and put the "washed" claims to bed. But we will see.

@@jamesjustin6819 - They've definitely not signed him for the sake of it. They must believe he has the optimum driving style for the car.

Charles had similar pace to Verstappen in suzuka when in clear air+Equal tyres so yes he is a massive threat to red bull if he sorts the Quali out

​@@greenfj1466 I mean I don't think Ferrari have the straight line speed of redbull yet but yeah if anyone can make up the gap it's him but ppl seem to forget that

@@luckymo_on True,The drivers need to stop qualifying behind the mclarens because the mclaren is so damn hard to pass which is the main reason red bull is winning by such margins and you are right Im not sure if its possible to overtake the red bull with such a big straightline speed disadvantage but if Charles can do some of his magic and get pole then he doesn't need to pass

@@greenfj1466 yeah let's hope charles sorted the quali situation out in this break time. China will tell I guess

And he doesn't even need that.

@@soundscape26 Fr he has a team for that

Hamiltons form is judged by comparision with Russel who is driving the same car yet he is doing better

Don't feel bad for him he will comeback and destroy Carlos like he does every year just be patient

@@darkghost4890lol

​​@@darkghost4890Remind me again, who were race winners last season?

@@exp2745 remind me again who was fight for the championship agents max when the car was competitive ?

@@darkghost4890 Define "competitive", keep in mind both Charles and Carlos drive the same.