Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz admit they had been shocked to search out Ferrari missing a lot tempo as each dropped out in Q2 on the Canadian Grand Prix, however consider the race may very well be a special prospect.
Ferrari arrived in Montreal because the slight favourite after Leclerc’s victory in Monaco, with the automobile wanting well-balanced over curbs on the bumpy road circuit. Nevertheless, all through Saturday, each drivers gave the impression to be struggling for efficiency and Leclerc will begin eleventh forward of Sainz in twelfth after they missed out on a Q3 spot by lower than 0.1s.
“I don’t have any explanations for now,” Leclerc mentioned. “In FP3 already we felt that one thing was unsuitable. We couldn’t see what was unsuitable and that was precisely the identical in qualifying, the place it undoubtedly felt like one thing was unsuitable however nothing we may see was unsuitable.
“The grip was simply extraordinarily poor within the first sector particularly, after which when you slide within the first sector it’s a snowball impact and also you by no means actually get the efficiency out of the automobile. So sure, tough weekend.
“It’s very stunning. I didn’t anticipate that and it’s clearly disappointing, however we’ve acquired a race [today]. I consider that within the race the problems that we now have had in qualifying shall be a bit totally different.”
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Sainz was equally perplexed, however believes Ferrari may need didn’t get the automobile set-up proper in comparison with its Monaco energy.
“We’re a bit stunned too,” Sainz mentioned. “Everybody is aware of, as a result of since FP3, actually, we noticed we had been sluggish and this weekend was going to be a troublesome one and also you by no means anticipate to go from preventing for a win and pole place to being out in Q2, however that is Components 1. I’ve seen worse issues occur and we are going to return and analyze why we’re struggling round right here.
“I believe proper now, I can simply inform you we’re missing grip and our journey doesn’t look nearly as good because it did in Monaco. For these causes — lack of grip, warm-up, journey — every little thing round Canada appears trickier than Monaco.”
Sainz backed up Leclerc’s prediction that the race may very well be a special prospect, nevertheless, with rain forecast to be an extra problem on Sunday.
“We’ll see. I believe there’s two or three components that might boost the race, which is clearly the climate and the graining,” he mentioned. “There was loads of graining in FP3 and loads of combined climate coming [Sunday]. These two issues hopefully will make the race a bit chaotic and can imply that we will transfer ahead.”
