Charles Leclerc didn’t hold back defending his Ferrari teammate Lewis Hamilton after the chaotic 2025 Singapore GP, slamming the team’s clumsy handling of brake failures that threw Hamilton into utter chaos.
Hamilton—running a risky two-stop gamble—looked set to snatch fifth when Leclerc mercifully let him through. But then everything went sideways. His brakes melted into uselessness, grip vanished like a magician’s trick, and boom—down he tumbled behind Antonelli, slapped with a nasty five-second penalty for trampling track limits like a bull in a china shop.
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Leclerc spilled to Sky Sports F1 that the disaster wasn’t some last-minute thriller. “This crap started way earlier—lap seven, eight maybe—so we were just babysitting the car the whole damn race,” he fumed, admitting both got royally screwed by Ferrari’s mess.
Yeah, sure, Hamilton’s fresh softs hooked him up with killer grip, tempting him to floor it. But those brittle brakes? Toast. “When you feel that speed, you’re gonna send it,” Leclerc shrugged, “but the system just noped out completely.”
Post-race, Hamilton laid it bare: front brakes fried, sparks flying like a bad pyro show. His late-race radio screams said it all: “Brakes gone, mate—dead. Left front’s ghosted.”
Even wrestling the wheel like a maniac, he couldn’t claw back control, racking up track limits while the car fought him like a greased pig.
Leclerc? Salvaged sixth, barely. But his simmering rage at Ferrari’s trash weekend pace burned hotter than Singapore’s humidity. “We’re getting murdered by this car,” he spat, laying bare the team’s tire-slapping circus of botched strategy, shaky tech, and bluntly brutal calls back at HQ.
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