A fourth place and a yellow flag
Charles Leclerc will start from fourth position – which means the second row – at the Belgian Grand Prix, after a less than optimal weekend. The Monegasque was more than half a second behind the pole position of Andrea Kimi Antonelli and in the final part of his last lap in Q3 he encountered a much-discussed yellow flag, which signaled a potential danger at the pit lane entrance. In the pit lane there was indeed Hadjar stopped, but by the stewards’ instructions.
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Leclerc’s comment on the yellow flag
To Canal+ Charles Leclerc explained: “I was quite annoyed at the end of my lap because there was a yellow flag at the last corner. The marshal was more or less in the middle of the pit lane and I thought it was a yellow flag for the last corner and so I slowed down accordingly.”
However, the Monegasque does not believe he lost much: “I don’t think we would have gotten second place. Maybe we would have taken fourth place, but that’s fine. It’s not that serious. In general, we could have done a little better. Maybe I lost 8-9 hundredths in that last corner with the yellow flag, but not much more,” Leclerc emphasized, concluding: “More or less that’s what we expected.”
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