has insisted is maximising the tempo of its 2025 Formulation 1 automotive, which makes it all of the extra irritating when his greatest Miami Grand Prix qualifying effort solely left him eighth on the grid.
Leclerc, who missed Saturday’s dash race after aquaplaning into the wall on his technique to the grid, and team-mate each struggled for efficiency in a dry qualifying session for Sunday’s fundamental grand prix.
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However Leclerc may solely handle eighth, 0.550s off Max Verstappen’s pole and behind each automobiles, whereas Hamilton was narrowly dumped out in Q2 and can line up twelfth.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari
Charles Leclerc, FerrariClive Rose / Getty Photographs
Clive Rose / Getty Photographs
When requested about his crash earlier than the beginning of the wet-to-dry dash race, Leclerc mentioned it was a mistake to finish the laps to the grid on intermediates whereas there was a number of standing water on the monitor.
“Within the first place the error was to be out on inter tyres with these monitor circumstances,” he mentioned. “We have to perceive what we have carried out fallacious as a workforce, however clearly I feel this was the primary mistake that then value us rather a lot.
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“Clearly, that made the entire day much more troublesome for the mechanics and for me as effectively, not doing as many laps as others, however I do not really feel like I’ve paid the worth of it at the moment. We have been simply not quick sufficient.”
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