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Charles Leclerc caused quite a bit of damage to Niki Lauda's historic 1974 Ferrari in a demo run at Monaco...

I arrived normally in the corner.” “I lost the brakes. the problem is that I got scared.

Formula one championship leader Charles Leclerc again crashed in hometown Monaco, this time in a historic Ferrari.

When you thought you already had all the bad luck of the world in Monaco and you lose the brakes into rascasse with one of the most iconic historical Ferrari Formula 1 car. “When you thought you already had all the bad luck of the world in Monaco and you lose the brakes into rascasse with one of the most iconic historical Ferrari Formula 1 car," Leclerc later posted on Twitter. Leclerc was driving a 1974 Ferrari once piloted by three-time F1 champion Niki Lauda in a demonstration run on Sunday at the 2022 Monaco Historic Grand Prix. He went deep into La Rascasse corner, lost control of the rear of the car and backed into the barriers.

Photos show the Ferrari 312B3's left front brake disc falling off moments before Leclerc spun at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix.

In one close-up shot of the left front wheel, we can clearly see pieces of the left front brake disc falling away from the car. After the commentators note that the Monegasque driver has a chance to fulfill a boyhood dream without the pressure of a race weekend, Leclerc completely loses control. There might be a little consolation for Leclerc now, as it’s been discovered that the crash came down to brake failure, not driver error.

Current Formula 1 leader Charles Leclerc drove Niki Lauda's former Ferrari F1 car during the Monaco Historic Grand Prix but crashed it after losing brakes.

I braked, the pedal was hard, and it went to the floor. The impact dislodged the rear wing, but the car remained in working condition and he was able to drive off. During the Monaco Historic GP, he crashed a classic Ferrari 312B3 driven by Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni during the 1974 season when it took second place in the constructors’ championship.

Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc crashed three-time F1 champion and Ferrari legend Niki Lauda's car during the Monaco Grand Prix Historic on Sunday.

When you thought you already had all the bad luck of the world in Monaco and you lose the brakes into rascasse with one of the most iconic historical Ferrari Formula 1 car," Leclerc later posted on Twitter. Leclerc was driving a 1974 Ferrari once piloted by three-time F1 champion Niki Lauda in a demonstration run Sunday at the 2022 Monaco Historic Grand Prix. He went deep into La Rascasse corner, lost control of the rear of the car and backed into the barriers. The contact damaged the car's rear wing and Leclerc, a Monaco resident, seemed to intimate he had a problem with the pedals.

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And as you can see from the video above, Leclerc was hardly pushing the car, which seems to be running on period-correct rubber. Niki Lauda was quite vocal about how tricky it was to drive, as depicted in the film Rush. The same car Lauda drove to a second-place finish in his first race for Ferrari. In terms of messing up, this is a few steps above taking a clipper to Mattia Binotto's famously curly and luscious hairdo. He's put quite a few cars in the barriers during his career, and crashing a Ferrari isn't so bad if you're Scuderia Ferrari's golden child. Charles Leclerc was also in attendance, as he's a local.

Charles Leclerc took the Ferrari 312B3 belonging to Niki Lauda around the Formula 1 Monaco Historic Grand Prix track and promptly crashed it.

The Ferrari 312B3 doesn’t get the opportunity to compete in Formula 1 races much anymore, but hopefully, someone can fix it up. Charles Leclerc went around the track twice in Niki Lauda’s 1974 Ferrari 312B3. Leclerc had issues with the brakes and spun backward into a wall going around a corner. The 1974 Ferrari 312B3 was part of Race F, the Niki Lauda Formula 1 cars from 1973 to 1976. Unfortunately, Leclerc crashed the Ferrari 312B3 this weekend at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix. How important was this piece of Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 team history, and what went wrong? This was the 13th time the historic race took place, on the same Formula 1 Grand Prix street circuit as always. In fact, that might be what got him behind the wheel of Niki Lauda’s 1974 Ferrari 312B3 in the first place.

A brake failure likely caused Formula One driver Charles Leclerc to crash a piece of history, Niki Lauda's 1973 Ferrari 312B3 at Monaco.

Leclerc later said on Twitter that he lost the brakes coming into La Rascasse. It's the second major humiliation for the Monegasque driver at his home track. The 2022 Bahrain and Australian Grand Prix winner set off again with some rear-end damage, but soon stopped again after the car began emitting smoke. Ferrari continued to improve the car, however.