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Alla Zakarian

03-02-2021 | 20:56 Formula 1
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"Leclerc made small errors, Max was careless," Scott Mitchell


Formula 1 journalist Scott Mitchell believes Charles Leclerc’s small mistakes that have “big consequences” are the result of misjudgements and inexperience, not like Max Verstappen’s 2018 run of “careless” errors. Last year Leclerc made five notable blunders in 17 races, three of which came on the opening lap of a Grand Prix. Mitchell doesn’t believe those are a sign of a “chaotic” driver such as Verstappen was in the first half of the 2018 season. He told The Race F1 Podcast: “The first thing I’d say is when we are talking about a lot of these errors we are talking about really, really small misjudgements that have big consequences. “It is not that he is a chaotic driver or a driver that lives on the edge and spills over it dramatically. I think it is obviously far less dense spread of incidents, a little bit like where Verstappen was in 2018 but for different reasons. “Verstappen at the start of 2018 was just a bit careless, a bit rash. Leclerc is more tiny misjudgements, call it a little bit of inexperience. It is really small mistakes that have big consequences. “I don’t think Leclerc has a trait of making errors and in fact I’m adamant he doesn’t make the same mistake twice. He is really good at learning from his errors.” He added: “That’s not indicative of a driver who is out of control. And that is the difference between when Leclerc occasionally makes these high-profile errors or misjudgements versus a sequence of mistakes like we saw from Verstappen at the start of 2018. “Similar outcome, similar in it being small things that have big consequences but different levels of whether it is a driver who is out of control or a driver who is making a tiny misjudgement they will learn from and not repeat in the future.”
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