Miami, Florida – Saturday at the Miami Grand Prix of Formula 1 was one of those days for Charles Leclerc that you would prefer to forget.
On his way to the initial network in the career of the Sprint F1 race, working around the circuit in a set of intermediate tires in wet conditions, he slid out of the racing line and in the barrier, ending his Sprint F1 career before he began.
Then, by qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix, Leclerc could only put his SF-25 in the fourth row, where he will begin eighth and, as he pointed out when he spoke with the media, including the media, including SB nation After the session, behind both Williams drivers.
When speaking with the media, an oppressed Leclercation lane reflecting on what happened in the accumulation of the Sprint F1 career.
“Sprint’s career, I mean, I have seen it several times, honestly, I can drive about 100 times and there is not much you can do as a pilot,” Leclerc said. “I think the error was first to go out [intermediate] Tires with these monitoring conditions, and this must understand what we have done as a team.
“I won too deeply that, but obviously I think this was the main mistake that cost us a lot. But obviously that made all day much more difficult for mechanics, for me, Don’s Don, paid the price today.”
Leclerc then changed his attention to his classification performance.
“And then in the qualification we are not fast enough,” Ferrari driver began.
“We have to analyze that there was something strange on our side. I had to greatly change the car, the tools and everything to have a son of the balance that I liked, it was very different, so we have to analyze what happened.”
What has frustrated Leclerc at this time? It is the fact that he feels that he is extracting everything that can SF-25 at this time, but the results do not match how it feels after finishing a return. You may feel that you have put in the return you need to cover the time sheets, but the stopwatch tells you otherwise.
“To be honest, this weekend I feel, and that is probably so frustrating, that I feel that we are maximizing the potential of the car.
“It’s just that the potential of the car is not there and when I finish a return, again today in qualification, I feel very satisfied with my lap, and is only mentioning P8.
“So yes, we have to look at it, I think.”
Leclerc also stressed that the characteristics of the circuit in Miami, with several low-speed corners, accentuate the current weaknesses of the SF-25 compared to the rest of the network.
“A track like this also highlights our weaknesses. There is a lot of low speed content. Williams, both Williams are facing us and I consider that my lap is good, so I think so, it is nice to understand where we lack.
“We are simply not fast and whatever we do with the car, we can execute it in different ways, but we simply do not have the aerodynamic load that others have at this time, as special at low speed.”
And with that, Leclerc left, he left to contemplate another frustrating Saturday.
