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The hard lesson Leclerc needed to learn

“I am so stupid. I am so stupid.” Charles Leclerc has taken this phrase as his go-to self-criticism in Formula 1, it seems. The utterance that came just moments after he buried the front of his Ferrari SF90 car into the wall during qualifying in Baku on Saturday was identical to that heard in China two weeks ago, and even last year in Bahrain, when he spun out on Saturday for Sauber.  Leclerc has always been his own harshest critic, but the stakes have become so much higher in 2019. No longer is a mistake the difference between a couple of points in the midfield fight as it was last year; now it can huge ramifications on his team’s entire race weekend. That’s how it played out in...
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