Christian Danner has branded Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari race engineer's response to the driver disgraceful.
The converstion between Leclerc and his race engineer during the Australian Grand Prix has become a meme, however, Danner thought that it wasn't funny at all.
During the race, Leclerc said via radio message: “I have the seat full of water.”
And the conversation went like this.
Bozzi: “Must be the water.”
Leclerc: “I’ll add that to the words of wisdom.”
Following this, Danner said via Motorsport-Magazin interview: “I think it was actually really disgraceful, because the driver says: ‘I’ve got a problem here’ and out there on the track.
“It was not easy to keep the car under control and he says: ‘Hey, there’s something, I’ve got a leak here, where could it be coming from?’ The engineer says: ‘It’s probably water’, you idiot!
“I found that completely out of place, especially towards a driver like Leclerc, who isn’t a whiner at all. He’s not someone who constantly complains about something.
“He reported a problem and wanted a solution to where the water could be coming from. An answer would have been: ‘You don’t have a leak, the water bottle is broken’ or whatever was going on.
“I just found that disgraceful.”
source - PlanetF1