Leclerc apologises to Ferrari as mysterious issue robbed him of certain win

Charles Leclerc's Hungarian Grand Prix did not end as wel as it started, as a mystery chassis issue struck past the halfway mark of the race, stripping him of the race win.

At first Leclerc believed that the nature of the problems in his Ferrari SF-25 were due to a different factor, this prompted a rather angry statement expressed via the onboard radio during the race.

After the race, speaking to the likes of GPblog, the Monegasque cleared the air: "Well, first of all I need to take back the words I said in the radio," began Leclerc.

"I thought that it (the issue, ed.), was coming from one thing, but then I got a lot more details since I got out of the car, and it was actually an issue coming from the chassis and nothing that we could have done differently," clarified the Ferrari driver who went on to finish P4 in the race.

Mysterious issue strikes and Leclerc loses Hungarian GP win

"I started to feel the issue in lap 40 or something like that, and then it got worse, lap after lap after lap," revealed Leclerc.

"Towards the end, we were two seconds off the pace. And the car was just undrivable. But I mean, again, as I repeat myself, this was an issue, and it's an outlier. It shouldn't ever happen again."

Nevertheless the Monegasque driver can't but admit to being left with a bitter aftertaste to what looked likely to be Ferrari's first win of the season.

"I'm still very disappointed. We had one opportunity this year to win a race, which I think was this weekend. The first stint was perfect. The first lap of the second stint was really good as well."

"I think we were in pace to try and win that race," Leclerc added. "The last stint was a disaster when I started to have that issue on the chassis."

Regarding the chassis problem and what the root cause of it was, both he and Ferrari are at a loss.

"I don't know yet how it was caused. but we will look into it," Leclerc concluded.

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