Charles Leclerc can understand Kimi Antonelli’s need to be “very aggressive”, though he felt the move that eliminated the Ferrari driver from the Dutch Grand Prix was “too much”.
It was a collision – one that Antonelli took the blame for – which rubber-stamped a bitterly disappointing Grand Prix Sunday for Ferrari at Zandvoort, as Mercedes clawed back crucial points on the Scuderia in the battle for P2 in the Constructors’ Championship.
Charles Leclerc deems Kimi Antonelli move ‘a bit too much’
Additional reporting by Thomas Maher
The first blow for Ferrari came when Lewis Hamilton terminally tagged the wall at Turn 3. By Lap 33, Leclerc had muscled his way past George Russell for fifth, the pair making contact in the process, before the Ferrari drivers’ race unravelled due to the co