“I was scared. I was really scared,” said Charles Leclerc with palpable relief after taking the chequered flag at the Red Bull Ring on Sunday. The Ferrari ace had just claimed his third win of the season and his first since the Australian Grand Prix way back in April, in a manner that proved conclusively the superior speed of his F1-75 Formula 1 car. But yet again reliability concerns had left him with his heart in his mouth in the closing stages as Leclerc began to fear the worst over a sticking throttle. No wonder he was scared.
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