I don't know if this is just me but I can't help but feel that these days people (especially on twitter, i saw a few posts literally minutes ago) have made it seem as if getting pole isn't a big deal or shouldn't deserve praise. One lap pace is an extremely valuable quality of a driver because not only does it need precision and getting the best out of your car, but also it means less cars to overtake. Charles has great quali AND race pace, i find the pole to wins conversation around him extremely lacking in context. Like this season alone he should have won in Spain (he was literally leading by half a minute and then the engine failed on him). He should have won in Monaco but team strategy fucked him over. He should have also won in Baku (he was in the lead and the safety car would have played in his favour had the engine not given up on him). That's five (ideal) wins out of 7 poles, how is that not amazing?!?
I am starting to loathe the "he'll get the pole on saturday only for rbr to win it on Sunday" like NO! Shut up, he will win it if things that are out of his control play in his favour.
I am tired of negativity, when charles said that negativity when bad things happens is too much (and vice versa), he was right and that kind of fandom culture is toxic. It was the reason I stopped opening twitter and made this side blog instead (sorry i still don't know how to operate it) because while people still talk, the amount of it is far lesser.
Charles has consistently shown both amazing overtaking and defence skills while maintaining lap pace and this is the reason people who are actually important to the sport (commentators, that is not you) know he should never be counted out.
The second he gets the team and a reliable fast car, it's over for everyone because he would have been leading the ************* if it wasn't for the above-mentioned.
I just need people to stop discrediting him in any way possible, I'm tired of this going all season long only to have a "why charles leclerc was the most underrated driver this season" article again by one smart person because even chans are letting it happen.
To repeat it, he literally gained more than half a second in baku in a driver focused sector on others, if that doesn't show how incredible he is people just have a problem with bias clouding their objective judgement.
At the end of the day, those stupid comments aren't gonna change how talented my baby is and neither is it gonna change the way key people view him (there's a reason red bull, mercedes and ferrari were after him to sign him after his rookie season and the other two would still give up a kidney to get him in their teams today)
But honestly it just puts more pressure on Ferrari and him and if there is one thing the charles leclerc knows how to do, it's to *thrive* under pressure. His time will come because you simply cannot be predestined for such great things with the talent to back it, not amount to the said predestined thing. Either ferrari is going to get back their shine with him or they will always continue to flounder.