Leclerc optimistic for Baku: Time to finish the job

Unable to turn his last two pole positions into race wins, Charles Leclerc just wants to “finish the job” when he lines up P1 for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

The 24-year-old has been this year’s Mr Saturday, taking six pole positions from eight qualifying sessions, Baku included.

He, however, has only two wins on the board and has fallen to second in the Drivers’ Championship, lagging nine points behind Max Verstappen.

Leclerc lost the lead in the championship at the Spanish Grand Prix, a race he started from pole position and was leading before his engine gave up.

His efforts to get it in Monaco were thwarted when, again having been on pole position and having led the race, he was undone although this time it was reliability, rather it was a bad strategy call from his Ferrari pit wall.

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This weekend, which regaining the lead is a bit more difficult, Leclerc at least hopes to make inroads by following up his pole position with a race win.

“I just want to finish the job,” said the Monégasque driver. “The past two weekends I’ve already said that on the Saturday and it didn’t happen on the Sunday.

“So we need to make it… I mean, we don’t need to make it work but it will be very nice if we’ll make it work.

“Let’s see how it goes in the first few laps, and then I will try to keep the lead.”

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