Driver Charles Leclerc compared the feeling of testing a new acceleration system in a Formula 1 car to Mario Kart. The 28-year-old racer said:
When I press the button, I feel like I have a mushroom in Mario Kart.
At Scuderia Ferrari, they decided to play along with the driver’s joke and symbolically “added” an element from the game to his car. The engineers humorously installed Mario Kart for Leclerc directly on the steering wheel — of course, only as a playful idea.
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