Charles Leclerc’s curse on his home circuit continues. With two weeks to go before the 2022 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix race, the Monegasque driver got behind the wheel of Niki Lauda’s 1974 Ferrari 312B3 at the Historic Monaco Grand Prix .
This event is always held several weeks before the official appointment of the calendar of the highest category, which will take place on the weekend of May 29. During these days, some of the most historic single-seaters in F1 delight the fans present there.
How could it be otherwise, Charles Leclerc, local driver and current leader of the Formula 1 world championship in 2022, put on his overalls and helmet to make a small exhibition in front of his countrymen, at the controls of a prestigious Niki Lauda ‘s 1974 Ferrari 312B3.
Despite the fact that during these exhibitions the first objective of both the owners of the single-seaters and the drivers is not to damage the car due to all that this entails, the Monegasque driver lost control of the 312B3 in the final area of the track and crashed into the protections, yes, at a speed not too great.
This was Leclerc’s accident with Lauda’s Ferrari
Although it is true that the impact was not spectacular, the car suffered some damage and Charles Leclerc was forced to return to the pits and apologize for what happened.
This is how the Monegasque driver explained what happened: “I lost my brakes. I lost my brakes! I braked, the pedal was hard and it went to the ground. I was lucky that it happened to me at that moment, because if that had happened to me in another corner, It wouldn’t have been a good thing.”
To which Jacky Ickx replied, “I know. Don’t worry about it.”
“No, the worry… The problem is that I got scared. I got to the corner well,” Leclerc added.
With this unfortunate event, the current Ferrari driver continues his odyssey of accidents at home, a very negative streak that he hopes to put an end to in two weeks at the Monaco GP , since this year any loss of points due to A mistake could cost him dearly in his fight for the drivers’ world championship.
