Max Verstappen in a Ferrari? Isack Hadjar: “Then the following would happen”

Charles Leclerc usually responds to comments from his fellow drivers with considerable composure. This time, it seems to me, another driver has really got under the Monegasque’s skin.

Leclerc at the Circuit of the Americas in Texas: “I think it’s utter nonsense to claim something like that.”

The ‘nonsense’ in question is a comment made by Isack Hadjar. The French Red Bull Racing driver claimed: “Ferrari had the fastest car in Singapore.”

Leclerc again: “He knows as little about how good the Ferrari is as I do about how good his car is. I don’t pay any attention to that sort of talk.”

But Hadjar effortlessly topped that. The 22-year-old Parisian also said: “I think if you’d put Max in the Ferrari, he would have won the Singapore race by a bigger margin. That’s my opinion. I stand by my view that Ferrari had the fastest car there.”

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“Max qualified on pole by half a tenth of a second. Ferrari didn’t have any new tyres for the race – at least not any soft ones – so that had an impact too. Verstappen made the difference as a driver in Q3, and that was enough. Pole position was crucial to the victory in Singapore.”