So there won't be any significant change. We just need to try and work as a team to put a weekend together for the nine remaining races and see where we end up." And now the friendship and rivalries have moved on to the golf course. Leclerc, Albon and Norris play regularly. It's for fun and relaxation but, being elite sportsmen, they also want to beat each other. It seems an odd fit for F1 drivers, even if famously Nigel Mansell was a quality golfer. What's the appeal?

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Since then, 2022 has largely been a story of squandered opportunities for Ferrari. Leclerc has scored seven pole positions in 13 races - but only one further win.It depends on the situation, on the person you're facing, your opponent," he says. "How far is he willing to go? We use only the finest materials to make our Charles Leclerc (Blue Suit) Cardboard Cutouts and every one carries the unique Celebrity Cutouts Hologram - your assurance of excellence.

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But it's Ferrari's operational errors that have really hit home. In both Monaco and Silverstone, pit-stop calls demoted Leclerc from the lead to fourth place. In Hungary last weekend, it was an incorrect tyre strategy that converted a lead into sixth place at the flag. He faces such a large deficit that he more or less has nothing to lose. How will he approach the second part of the season? You know, what is the mindset that I had at that particular moment of the race that pushed me to go over the limit and do a mistake?

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When we were younger, it was a bit more messy and obviously we were kids. But now the relationship has improved, and there's a lot of respect." It has indeed. After two years in the competitive wilderness, Ferrari started the season with a bang. Two wins in the first three races, and two retirements for title rival Max Verstappen of Red Bull, gave Leclerc a 46-point lead over the Dutchman. What led to Curtis Warren's downfall?: Gangster tells the story of one of Britain's wealthiest drug barons

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It depends which one," he says. "I'm extremely tough with myself. So it is much more difficult to deal with my own errors than whenever it is the team, even though we are obviously one team and we lose and we win together. We use only the finest materials to make our Cutouts and every one carries the unique Celebrity Cutouts Hologram - your assurance of excellence. Some drivers take a different approach. The concept of a "racing drivers' book of excuses" has long been in the F1 lexicon. Michael Schumacher, for one, was notorious for never admitting he had made a error - at least not in public. For Leclerc, this is anathema. Not really. I've never felt too much the outside pressures," he says. "For me this doesn't change much. It's just more happiness, I guess, because whenever you are doing a great job you're rewarded with a victory, which is much more rewarding than a fifth place like last year, whenever we were doing the perfect job. Leclerc is part of a remarkable generation of young drivers in F1. Verstappen, George Russell, Alex Albon, Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon and Lance Stroll were contemporaries in karting, Lando Norris close behind.