In The Driver's Seat

Embarrassing week for Ferrari could be one of many in the months ahead

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc before the race in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, on Aug 30, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS
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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, BELGIUM - As humiliation goes, Ferrari's at Spa-Francorchamps last week was as excruciatingly embarrassing as it gets.

Here the faces in the camp were as red as the famous scarlet livery. Many cars passed the Ferraris, either as Charles Leclerc's desperate gamble to start on the soft Pirellis earned him an early eighth place before he slipped back or when being re-passed by cars that had completed pit stops.

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