Charles Leclerc: Good to put a stop to "talk” about F1 qualifying form
Charles Leclerc hopes his P2 in sꦰprin𒆙t qualifying will stop "talk" about his recent F1 performances.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc says it is good to stop people talking about his recent performances after qualifying second for the F1 Miami Grand Prix sprint race.
The Ferrari driver impressively recovered from missing most of the weekend’s only practice session earlier on Friday to narrowly miss out on pole position for the sprint race to Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.
Leclerc is regarded as one of F1’s fastest drivers over a single lap thanks to his pole record but has found himself being questioned after a run of defeats to teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz this year.
And the Monegasque hopes Miami will mark the startꦺ of a turnaround in form after recent work to get his tyres in💙 the best operating window.
"Qualifying has been the weak point for two races in a row. China was a bit better but we didn't have the car to show that,” Lec💮lerc said.
“On such a difficult🅘 weekend, I did one lap in FP🎶1, so had to go into Qualifying and go flat out straight away.
"We only𒈔 had one set of tyres in SQ1, so it was very, very tricky but straight awꩲay I felt the feeling and the hard work I've done earlier in the season, to put the tyres in the right window, has paid off.
"So I'm happy because there 🐲is so much talk now and you are as good ﷽as your last race in this sport.
"When you have two✱ races in a row, where you are bad in qualifying and I haven't done a great job, people staܫrt to talk.
"So it's good to stop that, so now we need to work on the consistency and tryജ to stay at that level and put the tyres consistently in the right wi𒉰ndow as I've done in the past.”
L🍌eclerc’s weekend appeared to be on the back foot after he was restricted to just a singlꦰe lap in practice when he spun his Ferrari and stopped on track.
While he admits he is going into the sprint race without ♑any real knowledge about Ferrari’s race pace, Leclerc is hopeful about challenging Red Bull in both the sprint and Sunday’s grand prix.
“P1,” he replied when asked what he can drᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚeam of in the sprint.
“I have no idea about our race pace. I did one lap so I have no idea about our race pace but I really hope we can have a good sprint and have a good r⭕ace pace to have hopes for the win on Sunday.”
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