by VALERIO BARRETTA
Canada, Leclerc’s explanation
For Carlos Sainz the problem of Ferrari in Canada it was the pace. Frederic Vasseur and Charles Leclerc, however, tell a different story: the pace of the SF-24 may not have been at the level of the best but it wasn’t even worth trying to get into the points; the Monegasque and the Frenchman have blamed the car’s reliability problems, with a power unit that yesterday slowed the winner of the Monaco GP by at least half a second. A figure that has evidently grown: the track engineer Bryan Bozzi in an initial radio team stated five tenths, for Vasseur they were “eight tenths for 15 laps“, for Leclerc even a second and a half.
Leclerc’s words
They know the reality – or will know it – only in Ferrari. Leclerc doesn’t make any dramas but asks the team to make an effort to resolve the power unit problem as soon as possible: “If you consider the first stint with the engine slow by a second and a half, I think we weren’t that bad in the corners. It was just the engine, the problem was so big that we couldn’t do anything. So, just as we did not overreact after Munich, we shouldn’t overreact after this racebut this Sunday hurts, with two DNFs costing us points against our rivals“, this was Leclerc’s comment after yesterday’s GP.
“I think we shouldn’t overdo the criticism of the car’s pace: there have been good weekends and bad ones, on Saturday we missed Q3 by three hundredths, we definitely weren’t right with the car; we need to work on this and try to understand what went wrong and for the race I wouldn’t say the pace was bad“.
“Honestly, there’s not much to say, the engine problem cost us everything. At one point we tried to switch to slick tires when we knew it would be risky, but we had to try something because with the engine problems we would have been out of the points anyway. And that’s it“, he concluded. “Then it was extremely complicated to make all the engine changes that the team asked of me, and at the same time we were still losing 1.5 seconds per lap. We need to look at the engine problem because it will be complicated for the rest of the season“.
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