well i wish he can be normal amounts of parasocial bec he goes extreme with the "i'm not like one of you" shtick and contributes greatly to the hate with his coke rants and accusing charles fans of coddling him. i'm glad he went quiet after that charlie tweet.

He's a lab rat that will survive even a nuclear meltdown #trust

he won silverstone finally 🥹🥹

CL: Well, I don't know if it fuels me. Honestly, I think anybody that says that would lie. I think whenever there's so much negativity around, it's not something so nice to see. So no, I mean, you try to cancel the noise as much as possible. I try to not look at my phone and focus on what is relevant and in order to also have the right picture of the situation, because things are said and you go from hero to zero, from zero to hero, in like two days in this sport, and so it can influence then the way you see a situation. So no, my job was really to just try and cancel that noise, to not look at anything, to not listen to anything. And I know that I didn't become a bad driver from one day to the other. It was just a matter of finding that feeling with the car. These cars are very specific, are very different to the way we've been driving since we started racing, and so it takes a bit more time to get used to it. I was very strong for the first part of the season, then I lost a bit of feeling with the car. We changed quite a few things with the car and it took a bit more time than what I had wished to get back to the level I wanted. And on top of that, we've had some issues on the Sunday that cost me quite a lot of points. So altogether, it wasn't a nice situation to be in, but I'm very happy to get out of this situation in this way. However, as I said, it's still the beginning. It's only one race and I must not get carried away thinking that the war is over. I mean, the battle with this car has been quite a lot recently and I cannot take it for granted that now it's behind me. So, I'll keep working and try to get that feeling more often going ahead.

Photo by Mario Renzi

Charles greeting fans at Silverstone. 📷: Anni Graf, James Sutton, Andrej Isakovic.

Silverstone 2026 F1 Race Winner Charles Leclerc. Photos by Mark Thompson.