Charles Leclerc identifies why he is struggling with tyre life!
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Charles LEclerc believes that the struggles he is having with tyre life are down to his driving style, which he describes as aggressive.
The Monegasque driver looked set for his sixth podium in F1 at Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, only to be caught and overtaken by teammate Sebastian Vettel in the dying laps, due to the German's superior tyre life.
Qualifying has been a strength for Leclerc, who has taken two pole position and outqualified Vettel in the last five races, but the Sundays themselves havent been quite so smooth.
According to RaceFans.net, he said: “I’ve been struggling more and have more tyre degradation compared to Seb. So I believe probably it’s coming also from driving, maybe I’m driving a bit too aggressively now in races.
“We need to understand and analyse and try to improve for the next races.
“I was lacking pace at the end of the first stint and at the end of the second stint, mostly tyre degradation. So I don’t know, that’s a few races that I’m quite quick in qualifying but at the end of the races I struggle a bit more.
“I need to understand if I need to adjust a little bit that. But there’s probably also a little bit of driving to try and save a little bit better the tyres in the race.”