An uphill weekend for Charles Leclerc. The Ferrari driver has hardly ever found himself perfectly at ease at the Hermanos Rodriguez Autodrome: not even in his favorite hunting territory – the qualification – has he succeeded in the usual magic; indeed, today was the worst Saturday of the season for a dry performance. # 16 is only seventh, even behind Valtteri Bottas.
Why this meltdown? The team principal Mattia Binotto revealed that Leclerc drove with the broken DRS in the last part of the latest pole assault, but the Monegasque’s complaints had already started in PL3. He would like to have answers above all from the driver, who blamed the car, which he said was worryingly lower in terms of power and driveability. And the fact that Ferrari has loaded the car more ahead of the race convinces the # 16 to a certain extent: “Of course I made a mistake in PL2 and that’s what you remember. Today I was not satisfied with the balance, there is something wrong with the engine and we have to look good because I’m losing a lot on the straights. In general the handling did not respond exactly to what I put on the pedals. We hope to understand what the problem is for tomorrow“He told the microphones of Sky Sport F1. “The set-up changes? Even before qualifying we expected a difficult pole fight even compared to Mercedes. As for the victory tomorrow, it’s a difficult goal, of course, but first of all I would like to understand what happened and try to change it for tomorrow.“.
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