Charles Leclerc’s FP1 crash threatened to derail Ferrari’s optimism heading into the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend, but his chart-topping time in the second free practice session spared his blushes and put the Prancing Horse’s weekend back on track.
The Monegasque overcooked it into Turn 15 and could not back out of hitting the wall, sapping at his running in a stop-start opening hour in Baku. To add further insult to injury, he was none too happy with the handling characteristics of his Ferrari SF-24 on his return to the track in FP2, citing “heavy” steering and worried that his car was “bent somewhere”.
