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The Race F1 Podcast

Charles Leclerc: future champion or over-rated?

The Race F1 Podcast

The Race Media Ltd

Sports

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell join Edd Straw to delve into Charles Leclerc’s qualities as an F1 driver, and explain whey they rate him so highly


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0:00.0

The race is on, and with Ferrari becoming the first team to hit the track in 2021, albeit running a 2018 car, we're taking a close look at Charle LeClerc.

0:16.0

Is he the real deal? How good is he? And does he make too many mistakes? I'm Ed Straw and joining me with

0:21.6

all the answers as Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes. Scott, hello. Have you got round to planning

0:29.0

what you're going to do with the extra 10 minutes you've gained this year on Grand Prix weekends?

0:34.2

Yeah, I'm going to spend it. I'm probably going to travel, actually, you know, use that

0:40.9

extra time I get to, you know, see the world, small place. So, you know, every, every bit adds up.

0:47.7

No, I think it'll be useful, a bit of extra prep time in the evening. Make sure the podcasts

0:53.8

better than ever, you know, punchier,

0:58.4

filled with better answers, more concise. For example, for this podcast here, I'll wrap the

1:03.5

podcast up in a few seconds, shall I? Yes, Charlotte Close the Real Deal. How good is he? Very good. Does

1:09.8

he make too many mistakes? Yes, at the moment, but I'm sure he'll get better. Yeah, well, that's How good is he? Very good. Does he make too many mistakes?

1:12.7

Yes, at the moment, but I'm sure he'll get better.

1:10.0

Yeah, well, that's very good. You've jumped ahead. Join us again next week for another episode of the Race F1 podcast. You're one of those people who jumps to the end of the book to see how it ends, aren't you, before you decide to continue? No, but I do occasionally accidentally read the end of the page before I finish the bit that I'm on.

1:46.0

I just my mind I, my wander that's all. Fair enough. Fair enough. We have of course got a little bit more meat to put on on that bone. But I'd also like to know Mark Hughes what you're going to do with that extra 10 minutes from the race is starting 10 minutes early. I plan to watch an extra 10 minutes of driver on board footage from the race to try and glean what's been going on.

1:47.1

That's my plan for it.

1:48.8

I'm just going to save it.

1:55.9

So, you know, if we get, if we're looking enough to get 20 races, that's 200 minutes.

1:56.5

I don't know.

1:59.7

I can do something with them at the end of the season.

2:01.5

That's a very, very good idea.

2:02.4

I like that planning ahead.

2:05.1

Give yourself an early night in Abu Dhabi.

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