“It’s really hard to drive”. Like this Charles Leclerc made his debut at the microphones of Sky Sport after qualifications of the Italian Grand Prix a Monza in which he placed eighth. The Monegasque during Q1 seems to have had a problem with the engine brake of his power unit Ferrari, which sometimes worked correctly and sometimes not, forcing him to brake harder. “It wasn’t pleasant. I won’t go into detail on what I heard, but there was some problem. We will look to fix. It didn’t help me today, but it does, ”he continued.
Leclerc try to remain optimistic even if tomorrow, in the race sprint which will determine the starting grid of the real race on Sunday, he will have to start in the fourth row immediately next to his teammate Carlos Sainz: “To make sevenths and eighths on a track that on paper is difficult for us, with the problems we have had, it’s not terrible. Let’s hope for a good sprint race tomorrow. Honestly the problem we had is something that cost us there possible third row. I certainly would have liked to have been in the third row, but today it went like this. We will try to solve the problem for tomorrow. As always, we won’t take too many risks. There McLaren? He is strong this weekend. We have to bring home points and that’s what we will do ”.
“We know we have weaknesses in this circuit. We saw last year that this is one difficult track due to the characteristics of our car, but we managed to improve compared to last year – added Sainz, who finished seventh -. Progress is there, but it is not enough. We know that in front of our fans we want to do more. Today, however, doing better than 20 ″ 3-20 ″ 4 was not possible. Risking tomorrow? Our position is what it is. Gasly is two tenths ahead, Perez also should be in front, but there is not. We are between the seventh and eighth place. What can help us is to do two good starts. Maybe with those we can earn something at the end of the weekend, but in terms of pace we won’t have much more“.
OMNISPORT | 10-09-2021 21:30
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