Ferrari had a disastrous qualifying session in Montreal
Charles Leclerc says that Ferrari was “just not fast enough” after neither he nor team mate Carlos Sainz made it to Q3 in Montreal.
The pair were bumped out in 11th and 12th places respectively in Q2 after they struggled to get their tyres up to temperature at the start of a lap.
In addition they didn’t take new tyres for their final laps of the session, instead pitting to take a scrubbed set that had done one lap.
After aborting his lap Leclerc said “I guess we are f****d. I won’t comment here…” as he returned to the pits.
“We are just not fast enough,” said Leclerc when asked by this writer about his session. !And yeah, unfortunately, that’s it. In FP3 we were nowhere on the dry, in qualifying, we were nowhere on the dry as well. It’s like this.”
“I don’t have any explanations for now. In FP3 already we felt that something was wrong, we couldn’t see what was wrong. And that was exactly the same in qualifying, where it definitely felt like something was wrong, but nothing we could see was wrong.
“So the grip was just extremely poor in the first sector especially. And then once you slide in the first sector, there is a no snowball effect, and you never really get the performance out of the car. So yeah, difficult weekend until now.”
Leclerc admitted that he was surprised that the team struggled so much in Montreal.
“I did not expect that, and it’s obviously disappointing. But we’ve got a race tomorrow, and I believe that in the race, the issues that we have had in qualifying will be a bit different.”
Asked about the decision not to run new tyres he said: “I’ll review that with the team, I’m not sure.”
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