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With his 24th pole position, Charles Leclerc now has the second most pole positions for Scuderia Ferrari, only behind Michael Schumacher (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/formula1@lemmy.world
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[–] cooltrainer_frank@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wow, Charles has only converted 4 poles? That's surprisingly low to me. The car has been faster in quali than race for years and he's a great qualifier, but still

[–] Knuschberkeks@feddit.de 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Verstappen has converted more Leclerc polesinto wins than Leclerc.

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Goddamn...

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well he has run into Verstappen+Red Bull combo which has prevented him from converting his poles

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A lot of mechanical issues and strategy blunders happened there as well.

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah you are right - leclerc, Ferrari and luck have played an equal part in throwing away the races where they were actually quicker

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

TIL that Jody Scheckter won a WDC but only got three poles.

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

And I am shocked that Alonso isn't on that list. He spent 4 years of his prime in that ferrari