‘We’ve got to look into it’ - Charles Leclerc confused by loss of qualifying pace

🉐Charles Leclerc has been left perplexed by his poor performance in qualifying at the Japanese Grand Prix.

Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari SF-24. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 4, Japanese Grand Prix, Suzuka, Japan, Qualifying
Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari SF-24. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 4, Japanese Grand Prix,…

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc says Ferrari need to “look into” the reasons for their mysterious loss of qualifying pace after a disappointing performance at the F1 Japanese Grand Prix.

Leclerc ran out of sync to his rivals in Q3 and c💝ompleted just a single lap due to quickly burning through his soft tyres▨, but struggled for pace and could only qualify eighth on the grid at Suzuka.

The Monegasque was left baffled by his l🐼ack of speed and has called for a Ferrari investigation into it.

“I think from Q1 to Q2 it hasn’t ꦫbeen a st෴rong session,” Leclerc said.

“Already the first lap in🌊 Q1, I was [thinking] okay, the feeling is quite okay. Normally when it is the case, the time co✱mes with it. Today it has been completely the opposite. So we’ve got to look into it.”

Leclerc s🐓uspects the performance drop-ℱoff is tyre-related.

“It’s one of those sessions maybe you get it once in a season. It’s def𒈔initely not a good feeling,” he expla🎀ined. 

“Everything feels okay, the balance is not way off – we can always improve, but in a bit, like every♎ qualifying. If I rely on the feeling at the end of the lap, I’m like, okay, this is quite a good lap and this is a good lap. Then you look at the board and you are a second off.

“When this happens, normally we look more at tyres and the way you bring the tyre♑s to temperature. I’ve tried many different things today and it didn’t work, any of the things I’ve tri💞ed. So for now I don’t have the answer.”

Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari SF-24. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 4, Japanese Grand Prix, Suzuka, Japan, Qualifying
Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari SF-24. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 4, Japanese Grand Prix,…

He added: “The positive t🥂hing, i🐭f we have to find one, is that our race pace looks a bit stronger. But on a track like this qualifying position is extremely important and today we didn’t do a good job.”

Outgoing Ferrari teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz enjoyed a better day on his way to claiming fou🐻rth.

“Aft🌱er FP3 we thought we didn’t have🍃 the pace as FP1 and we thought it was going to be a tougher weekend. And we actually made a good step in quali,” Sainz said.

“It’s just Lando [Norris] two-tenths in front for P3 was too much around this track. H𒅌ere the gaps are very, ver🍒y tight and two tenths was too much.

“But I did some very good laps in this quali, I’m happy with my performance. It’s just a track where the Ferrari is not🐼 the fastest car around and we know why.”

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