Charles Leclerc expressed his high hopes of winning the United States Grand Prix, despite losing out to Lewis Hamilton in Saturday’s Sprint.<\/p>\n
The Monegasque lined up second on the grid and looked like challenging pole-sitter Max Verstappen, but a merciless defense from the Dutchman saw Leclerc pushed wide, which opened the door for Hamilton. From then on the Mercedes comfortably pulled ahead and built almost a 10 seconds gap over the course of 19 laps.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expected them to be stronger and they were, so we need to work to try and understand what we can do better to be a step ahead tomorrow.\u201d Leclerc said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, at the end we have quite a lot of data to analyse, having two cars on two different strategies. I think this will be a bit of a help for us because we know how the softs are behaving for tomorrow. I hope we can take advantage of that and hopefully we can win tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leclerc starts Sunday’s race from pole position after firm favorite Verstappen will line up 6th after being penalized for exceeding track limits in Fraday’s qualifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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