The Ferrari title challenger ♐trails only Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in the

Leclerc roared out of the blocks atꦐ the beginning of the season but a series of mistaꦇkes, , have ceded the initiative to Verstappen.

The Monegasque driverꦛ has now offered a rare insight into how he, and his family, deals with the inherent dangers of 🐽F1.

“So it’s tough on my mother,” Leclerc said to GQ Magaz🍎ine𓄧. 

“And I don’t know what to tell her. Other than: I love w💝hat I do. 

“T🦋here’s nothing in particular I c🐼an say to make her feel better. 

“I’m not going to say I’ꦿll be careful. That wouldn’t be true. I’m going to 🅘give it my best, whatever. 

“She knows: It’s a dangerous sport. It got massively safer through the years. 🤪But it wi🦹ll remain forever a dangerous sport.

“She knows I’m the happiest once I’🥃m in that car.”

Remindꦗers of how dangerous this can sport can be were present at Silverstone for the F𓆉1 British Grand Prix when Zhou Guanyu suffered a terrible crash. 

He admitted afterwards that he was saved by the Halo, the once-controversial device which Lewis Hamilton also credited with𓆉 being a life-saver.

Leclerc, in his rookie F1 season, w💯as forced to credit the Halo after a crash involving Fernando Alonso.

“I have never been a fan of the Halo but I have to say that I was very🍷 happy to have it over my head today,” Leclerc said. 

“I felt the impact and looking at the image of my 🐈༺car it is quite spectacular.