Leclerc says new teammate Sainz is closer than Vettel
Apr.7 - Charles Leclerc says he is forging a closer relationship at Ferrari with Carlos Sainz than he did with his former teammate Sebastian Vettel.
Spaniard Sainz, 26, moved from McLaren for 2021 to replace the ousted quadruple world champion Vettel, who is now struggling to get up to speed at Aston Martin.
"All of Vettel's complaining about not feeling the car has to stop," Ralf Schumacher told Sport1. "Life is not a pony farm.
"'I don't feel good, the car steers differently' - nobody cares!" the former F1 driver charged. "We're talking about Formula 1, he gets a lot of money to do it and he's a world champion."
As for Leclerc, he sounds happy now that Vettel has been replaced by Sainz.
"He has been in several teams already and it's always interesting to get an idea of how your opponents work," the Monaco-born Ferrari driver is quoted by La Repubblica.
"After that I immediately sensed his great motivation - you can see that he wants to do very well immediately and this is contagious for the whole team. I think it's always good for a team to have two drivers pushing to get back to victory.
"I spend more time with him than I did with Vettel," Leclerc revealed.
"In the past, me and Seb often crossed paths - I arrived and he left, or vice versa. But now with Carlos we are often together on the same days and consequently we spend more time together," he added.
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Mark Webber finished 3rd in 2013 Drivers Championship and quit because he had had enough of the crap treatment from Vettel who expected to be treated like a god. I remember on one occasion Vettel needed a new front end after crashing his. So they took the new design of Webber’s car and gave it to the golden child. I often wondered was Mark the difficult one. I think history has shown he was not the problem. Vettel has a long history now of not racing for the team it’s all about him. And the more things that go wrong the more he blames his tools. A good craftsman never blames his tool he blames himself. This has to be the last year for Seb he is that kid we all knew growing up that would stand there and argue that he wasn’t out then would take his bat and ball and go home because he didn’t get his own way.
Vettel should have stepped down earlier, he just keeps getting shown up, the shame if stroll beats him this year.
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