Jock Clear on Charles Leclerc's Mental Strength (F1 Beyond The Grid, 2021)
... great drivers, let's talk about some of them now. And we'll start with the present. Let's start with Charles, Charles Leclerc. What impresses you about him?
JC: Mental strength, if you say, okay, put it in a nutshell, you know, these are the drivers I've worked with, put your finger on the one element of this driver that really shines through. Mental strength, certainly with Charles, quite astoundingly strong mentally.
Are you referring back to Spa 2019, everything that went on there with Antoine Hubert and still coming through? Is that what you're referring to? Is it much broader than that?
JC: No, no, not particularly. No, no. Pretty much everything he's done, you know, I mean, it's easy to forget simply because he is who he is and he has done what he's done in the last two, three years. It's easy to forget that coming into Ferrari as a Ferrari—official Ferrari driver at that age, that's got to be intimidating, isn't it? My word, that's got to be intimidating. You know, it's intimidating for Sebastian Vettel when he comes here with four world championships. That is intimidating stuff...