{"id":2371,"date":"2019-11-15T17:38:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2019-11-15T17:38:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:38:13","slug":"leclerc-owns-up-i-deserve-what-happened-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=2371","title":{"rendered":"Leclerc owns up: &#8216;I deserve what happened today&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc humbly owned up to the mistake that cost him a likely spot at the front of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix grid.<\/p>\n<p>Leclerc appeared to sustain in qualifying the superiority he&#8217;d shown since the weekend got underway in Baku.<\/p>\n<p>However, half-way into Q2, the Monegasque got a bit ahead of himself, carrying too much speed into the treacherous and tight Turn 8 corner and slamming the barriers on the outside.<\/p>\n<ul>\nBottas beats Hamilton to Baku pole after Leclerc crashes\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leclerc needed no one to tell him it was a big blunder, immediately calling himself &#8220;stupid&#8221; on his team&#8217;s radio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I deserve what happened today,&#8221; told <em>Sky&#8217;s<\/em> Natalie Pinkham. &#8220;I am very sad for what happened, but I deserve it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been stupid as I said on the radio, I&#8217;ve calmed down but I still think I&#8217;ve been stupid, this doesn&#8217;t change.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.storeafl.com\/collingwood-magpies-mens-training-guernsey-2019.html' title='collingwood magpies 2019 training guernsey'>collingwood magpies 2019 training guernsey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will push to learn from this and come back stronger, and hopefully have a very good race tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leclerc felt that without the costly mishap, ^pole position was a big probability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to say anything stupid but I think that after looking at FP1, FP2 and FP3, also Q1, pole was possible today and I throw all the potential in the bin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I&#8217;m very disappointed and I&#8217;ll come back stronger from this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether his lock-up had been the result of a lack of concentration, Leclerc said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not really, I just tried to put a little more brake. Well actually I don&#8217;t think I put more brakes, I just braked as I did on the softs but obviously I was on the medium and I locked up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Again, I don&#8217;t want it to be misunderstood, there&#8217;s no problem with the tyres, it&#8217;s just myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Suggested that all was not lost on a track that offers overtaking opportunities, the 21-year-old vowed to give it his all on race day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can definitely overtake and I&#8217;ll push for that tomorrow, but for now I&#8217;ll just be beating myself up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gallery: The beautiful wives and girlfriends of F1 drivers<\/p>\n<p><em>Keep up to date with all the F1 news via <\/em><em>Facebook<\/em><em> and <\/em><em>Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc humbly owned up to the mistake that cost him a likely spot at the front of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix grid. Leclerc appeared to sustain in qualifying the superiority he&#8217;d shown since the weekend got underway in Baku. However, half-way into Q2, the Monegasque got a bit ahead of himself, carrying too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}