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F1 2026 has ruined qualifying, and this Charles Leclerc lap data we’ve dug deep into explains why 🤓📉

"Obviously, there's lots of different views on this year's generation of car, but I mean, for me, it's just exciting that it's a new era for the sport. I think every time it has been a new era, it's always been exciting to see where people come out and I'm proud of the team. The work we've done over the last year to get us to this point and be closer to the front and in the battle, I think is really a showing of the amazing work the team's done." "Of course, there's bits that I don't love, like the deployment and the lift and coast, some things we happen to do, and SM, it's all not ideal, but racing-wise, it's been really, really fun." "That race I had with Charles, just in the second race, was one of the most fun races I've had, I think. Other than that was maybe me and Nico in Bahrain many years ago." "So I just hope we get more of that because that's what racing's about. It's like back and forth, back and forth, rather than one take and then it's over. So I personally enjoy that." "My point that I was making earlier is that in karting, it happens in karting all the time, back and forth, back and forth, no one ever calls it yo-yo racing. It's real racing. So whoever's coming out with that is... yeah." [via Sky Sports | F1 2026 | Japan]

🚨| Sir Lewis Hamilton: "In karting, it happens in karting all the time, back and forth, back and forth.." "No one ever calls it yo-yo racing. It's real racing." "So whoever's coming out with that is... yeah."

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