Jenson Button delivered Charles Leclerc a piece of brutal criticism following the British Grand Prix, in that his rivals should always “do the opposite” to him in mixed conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Monegasque endured a shocking race at Silverstone after a strategic nightmare, which saw the Ferrari driver pit for slick tyres at the end of the formation lap.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the circuit having still been too wet, it was a disastrous decision by Leclerc, who went off the circuit on several occasions whilst searching for grip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leclerc went off at Maggots\/Becketts and at Stowe, in what was the latest mixed weather race where the 27-year-old has struggled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He had to settle for 14th and a staggering 84 seconds adrift of race winner Lando Norris, whilst he also finished 45 seconds behind Lewis Hamilton in fourth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Button, the 2009 F1 world champion, was left puzzled by Leclerc’s continued difficulty in mixed weather and praised Hamilton for his overtake on George Russell and Esteban Ocon.<\/p>\n
“I mean, it seems like if you’ve got a tricky race like this, you do the opposite of what Charles Leclerc does,” Button told Sky F1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s never been a strong point of him or his engineer, or whoever it is, but they always seem to come off worse in these tricky conditions. But no, I still think it was a great job by Lewis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It was great seeing him fight with George for so many laps. And that epic move, the restart into Turn 3 when he overtook two cars, mega around the outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Such a beautiful move. And then the real good fight with George and passing Pierre again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenson Button delivered Charles Leclerc a piece of brutal criticism following the British Grand Prix, in that his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-249106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114819917719184642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}