Leclerc, frustrated with the rhythm of Ferrari F1 in Miami: “It’s bad”

Charles Leclerc was visibly disappointed after qualifying in sixth position for the Sprint race of the Miami Prize for Formula 1leaving proof of his “anger” by the lack of Rhythm of Ferrari so far this weekend.

Monegasco had arrived in the United States with the certainty that I was finding rhythm on SF-25, through a set of set-up settings that they had assured that the car was piloting more to their liking.

After finishing second in free training, although helped by the fact that some of the pilots of the top of the table did not mark fast times due to a red flag at the end of the session, Ferrari at least gave the illusion that he was in the fight for the first two rows of the grill.

Instead, Leclerc stayed more than three tenths of polealthough only 17 thousandths of George Russell’s first round in the SQ3, which granted the Mercedes pilot the fifth departure position for the short race on Saturday.

GPS data showed that, Although Ferrari curve passand Monegasco’s comments corroborated him.

“It’s bad,” Leclerc said about his rhythm in the sprint classification. “The return was good, but the rhythm is not the same for now, so It is a bit annoying, but it is what there is for now. Tomorrow I will strive to try to do something special at the exit [de la sprint]but to be honest, today There is not much margin of improvement. That is the rhythm of the car “.

“[Los problemas están en] All curves, in reality, so it is not that we are particularly weak in a type of curve. Yes, slow speed seem to be our weakness, but change from one weekend to another, So it is simply not good. “

His teammate in Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton, followed a similar speech in his statements after the short classification, pointing once again that the car had felt better in the FP1. The seven times world champion commented that It was a “better” session compared to its recent performances in classification, but it was limited to pointing out that the Scuderia was suffering by rhythm.

“I think it has been a better session. FP1 was probably a little better; The car was a little more pleasant to drive, but we lack speed. But we will continue working from there, “Hamilton said.

“I think all cars in front are faster, so I don’t know what else to say. There are always ideas [sobre qué mejorar]whether they are going to be successful as if not. But there are definitely things to learn from today, from the changes we made in the tuning and how the car behaved, and definitely There is work to win speed for the rest of the weekend“The British riveted.