Honestly charles had a brilliant race all things considered and I'm tired of people saying it wasn't. I'd even argue it was one of his best performances of all time.
• There was standing water on Charles' spot which caused him to lose the position to perez (despite having the exact same reaction time) and that is where lewis lost the position to carlos too. Even post race charles said he didn't know what happened and when charles makes a mistake, he owns up to it. If he didn't know, it was clearly out of his hands.
• Charles complained about the car being understeer-y and you could literally see him fighting the car at every corner and being snappy. Despite that, on a track which requires precision, he drove brilliantly, putting fast laps after fast laps, somehow finding time anyways. It was a difficult drive and he coped with it very nicely. You could see he put his entire heart and soul into it. He pushed like hell, fighting for every tenth he could get.
• Charles pitted on lap 31 for mediums. He is great at tyre management, one of his most under the radar skills, but he can't pull miracles where there aren't any miracles to pull. He was trying to close the gap to perez at front and pushing like crazy, ofcourse he had to also run out of tyres at some point. I believe the penalties not being announced for perez when his infringements happened also played a part because it made him push even more than what was there in the car or the tyres. It was inevitable.
Charles could have easily had put the car in the wall or spun or had an incident like more than half the grid but he DIDN'T! (Also this is not me taking a dig at anyone, it's just facts) With how snappy the car looked, it gave me heartattacks to even see snippets of his onboards, it was mighty impressive how he managed to wrangle that car to the chequered flag with his average race being being only a couple of tenths off of the fastest car.
Ferrari also made all the right strategy calls today thankfully and we might not have gotten the exact result we wanted (through various circumstances), I am so glad charles was able to have a clean weekend finally. And he was happy with his performance too which is the biggest indicator of how good he was because he never settles for less.
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