Charles Leclerc's Ferrari hit the brakes by itself mid-corner during lap 46 in Singapore — and the Monegasque was not amused. "The car started to brake on its own!" he radioed after the unexpected slowdown at turn 13, the slowest point on the Marina Bay circuit. Leclerc's alarm was immediate: if the fault repeated anywhere faster, he warned his engineer he'd have no choice but to bin it into the barriers. Race engineer Bryan Bozzi stayed calm, calling it a "single case" and issuing a settings tweak two laps later — "white 10 position two" — that solved the problem. Leclerc's car behaved the rest of the way home, and teammate Lewis Hamilton reported nothing similar. The scare aside, Leclerc said Ferrari's Singapore upgrades had delivered a step forward. For a team chasing constructor's points, phantom brake inputs are the last thing they need with five rounds left.
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