“It is unhealthy” — Charles Leclerc annoyed with Ferrari’s tempo in Miami

Charles Leclerc was visibly disillusioned after qualifying sixth for Method 1’s Miami Grand Prix dash race, registering his ‘annoyance’ that Ferrari had lacked tempo so far this weekend.

The Monegasque had arrived in Miami with the understanding that he was discovering tempo in Ferrari’s SF-25 by way of a sequence of set-up tweaks that had ensured the automobile was dealing with extra to his liking.

After ending second in free observe, albeit helped by a few of his fellow front-runners not setting occasions on account of a late-session purple flag, Ferrari at the very least gave the phantasm that it was within the combine for a grid slot on the entrance two rows.

As a substitute, Leclerc was over three tenths shy of pole, albeit simply 0.017s off George Russell’s early SQ3 lap that granted the Mercedes driver fifth on Saturday’s grid.

GPS information confirmed that, though Ferrari’s through-corner velocity was strong, it was struggling to keep up it by way of the traction zones out of the lower-speed corners – and Leclerc’s feedback lent credence to this.

“It is unhealthy,” Leclerc stated of his dash qualifying session. “The lap was good, however the tempo is simply in no way there for now, so it’s kind of annoying, nevertheless it’s the way in which it’s for now. 

“I am going to attempt my greatest tomorrow to attempt to do one thing particular with the beginning, however to be sincere, there’s not a lot room for enchancment immediately. It was simply…that is the tempo of the automobile.

“It is each nook, actually, so it is not like we’re notably weak in a single kind of nook. Sure, the gradual velocity appears to be a bit bit extra of our weak spot, nevertheless it modifications from one weekend to the opposite, so it is simply not nice.”

His Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton adopted an identical thread in his post-sprint qualifying dissection, as soon as once more noting that the automobile had felt higher within the opening observe session.

The seven-time champion did notice that it was a “higher” session in comparison with his latest travails in qualifying, however merely famous that Ferrari was struggling for tempo in its first try at a aggressive qualifying session.

“I assumed it was a greater session. FP1 was in all probability a bit higher; the automobile was a bit nicer to drive in P1, however we’re simply missing velocity. However I am going to simply preserve engaged on from there,” Hamilton stated.

“I feel all of the vehicles forward are quicker, so I do not know what else to say. There’s all the time concepts [of what to improve], whether or not or not they are going to be proper or not.

“However there’s undoubtedly learnings to take from immediately, set-up modifications we made and the way the automobile behaved, and there is undoubtedly work to do to choose up velocity going into the remainder of the weekend.”

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Pictures from Miami GP – Apply & Dash Qualifying