Carlos Sainz insists Charles Leclerc has not been chosen as Ferrari's number one driver and can "fight freely".
The Spaniard is 37 points behind his team-mate as we enter the second half of the season. He has shown impressive pace at times and won his first Formula 1 race at the British Grand Prix, but has also suffered some rotten luck.
No driver on the grid has more DNFs than Sainz's four in 2022, and it could be argued that none of them were his fault. And this weekend's French Grand Prix is likely to see him fall further behind after a grid penalty for new Control Electronics fitted to his car.
