The Italian squad had impressed in Friday apply however, in its preparations for qualifying, the workforce appeared to lack tempo in the beginning of the lap relative to the vehicles forward of it within the battle for pole place.
GPS traces present that his Ferrari was between 3-4kph slower on the straights in comparison with the 2 McLarens, and much more in arrears in comparison with polesitter Max Verstappen – because of the tow the Pink Bull driver picked up from Nico Hulkenberg.
Leclerc felt that Ferrari’s final grid positions, which grew to become third and fourth when Oscar Piastri was given a three-place grid drop for impeding Kevin Magnussen in FP1, value a shot at something greater than third.
“Wanting again at yesterday, reanalysing qualifying. I believe we principally misplaced the whole lot on the launch [of the lap] for some purpose,” he mentioned.
“We had a barely totally different energy technique in comparison with McLaren and Pink Bull, and we misplaced the whole lot on the run right down to Flip 2 – Max, on high of that, had the slipstream.
“That is one thing we’ll must look into as a result of, particularly on a monitor like this, monitor place is totally the whole lot.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-24, Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38
Picture by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Pictures
“Whenever you solely have a tenth in between Pink Bull, McLaren, and ourselves, we have to do the whole lot good and the third place at this time value us possibly a greater outcome within the race.”
Explaining his first impressions of Ferrari’s complete suite of upgrades for the Imola race, Leclerc contended that it was troublesome to evaluate them given the calls for of the Imola circuit.
However he was assured that the workforce had attained its goals with the brand new bodywork, flooring, and wings that it had put in for its residence race.
“I believe initially, it is not the very best monitor to evaluate upgrades, principally as a result of kerb-riding is such a factor right here that you probably have a great automotive on kerbs, then that would conceal a bit extra what’s the actual order,” the Monegasque mentioned.
“The nice factor is that the whole lot we anticipated from these upgrades, we had it when it comes to knowledge. It did precisely what it was speculated to do, which is all the time a great factor.”
The Italian squad had impressed in Friday apply however, in its preparations for qualifying, the workforce appeared to lack tempo in the beginning of the lap relative to the vehicles forward of it within the battle for pole place.
GPS traces present that his Ferrari was between 3-4kph slower on the straights in comparison with the 2 McLarens, and much more in arrears in comparison with polesitter Max Verstappen – because of the tow the Pink Bull driver picked up from Nico Hulkenberg.
Leclerc felt that Ferrari’s final grid positions, which grew to become third and fourth when Oscar Piastri was given a three-place grid drop for impeding Kevin Magnussen in FP1, value a shot at something greater than third.
“Wanting again at yesterday, reanalysing qualifying. I believe we principally misplaced the whole lot on the launch [of the lap] for some purpose,” he mentioned.
“We had a barely totally different energy technique in comparison with McLaren and Pink Bull, and we misplaced the whole lot on the run right down to Flip 2 – Max, on high of that, had the slipstream.
“That is one thing we’ll must look into as a result of, particularly on a monitor like this, monitor place is totally the whole lot.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-24, Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38
Picture by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Pictures
“Whenever you solely have a tenth in between Pink Bull, McLaren, and ourselves, we have to do the whole lot good and the third place at this time value us possibly a greater outcome within the race.”
Explaining his first impressions of Ferrari’s complete suite of upgrades for the Imola race, Leclerc contended that it was troublesome to evaluate them given the calls for of the Imola circuit.
However he was assured that the workforce had attained its goals with the brand new bodywork, flooring, and wings that it had put in for its residence race.
“I believe initially, it is not the very best monitor to evaluate upgrades, principally as a result of kerb-riding is such a factor right here that you probably have a great automotive on kerbs, then that would conceal a bit extra what’s the actual order,” the Monegasque mentioned.
“The nice factor is that the whole lot we anticipated from these upgrades, we had it when it comes to knowledge. It did precisely what it was speculated to do, which is all the time a great factor.”
