Leclerc: "Gasly told me that I had to win for Hubert"

"I remember talking to Pierre about it," says Leclerc to Motorsport-Total.com about the moment in question. "He, Esteban [Ocon], Anthoine and I were all good friends and grew up together. Pierre told me that I had to win for Anthoine. It's all that I wanted. It was something special."

This weekend young Monegask will not compete for the victory. The SF1000 is simply not competitive enough. Especially in sectors one and three Leclerc expects to lose a lot of ground. These sectors have a lot of long straights and that's something the Ferrari engine doesn't excel in. "We are going to suffer a lot. In the second sector, however, you can make up for quite a bit", he hopes.

Leclerc didn't unbuckled his seat belt

During the Spanish Grand Prix Leclerc recorded a DNF. The cause of this was a problem with the engine and a loose seatbelt. At Spa-Francorchamps the Ferrari driver explains why he decided to loosen his belt. "I unbuckled myself once I knew that there was a problem with the engine. I didn’t think I would go again. Then I put them on the way to go again on the track. I did one slow lap, especially to know whether the engine was working properly again or not, and then on the second lap when I started to push I realised that one of the four buckles that we have as a seat belt was not on.” Leclerc then immediately returned to his team in the pits.