Scott Mitchell-Malm

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1,231 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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The Race F1 Podcast · Lewis Hamilton's extraordinary F1 turnaround explained · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

But that's a mistake.

He spun in a Grand Prix.

And that situation, he was in a comfortable position and in control.

It happened in a place where he got away with it.

And Verstappen did once tell me, actually, in Hungary, ironically, about four years before that,

that the best drivers do spin better than the worst drivers.

They do just control it slightly better.

So you could argue that maybe Leclerc is just not quite as good at crashing as Verstappen as well.

yeah no but that's what I mean but like it's still a mistake it's a mistake like Verstappen could have done that in one of the high speed corners in Hungary like he could have made a mistake it's just this notion that because you can just you can just check when a driver does so much and has such a massive catalogue of races and opportunities and

highs and lows you can cherry pick any moment from their career and say this stands for this which is just silly that the main thing for Leclerc is I think in every single Ferrari season he's got more podiums in that season than his Ferrari teammate which means if you just take it on just the most a really basic metric like that an argument I would make is over the course of a season Leclerc will bring you more highs driving his way than others will bring his

He's got like a one in three podium rate for Ferrari.

And I think the only driver on the grid who comes close to that is like... Max has got like some ludicrous like one in two rate.

Partly helped by those Red Bull seasons where he basically had a 100% podium record.

But that's just an absurdly high standard.

Leclerc's main problem... And this goes above any criticism of him as a driver... Of which there are legitimate areas where you can say... Is this good enough?

Does this need to be better?

Leclerc's main limitation is he's had a car for the vast majority of his career...

that's good enough to snipe for seconds and thirds, not win consistently.

Yeah, well, he's still going to be the team boss of Ferrari, isn't he?

He can't escape that reality.

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