Happy Friday for the Ferrari a Silverstone. Charles Leclerc he will start from fourth place on the starting grid in the first Sprint qualification of the history of Formula 1: the Monegasque in qualifying on Friday evening managed to place himself behind the two Mercedes and of Max Verstappen.
“I enjoyed this Friday. In general I like having little preparation. There was less time to look at the data, you had to be straight away. I like the way I approach. Now eyes on Saturday’s race and we hope to do well, ”said Leclerc.
Regrets instead for Carlos Sainz, ninth after both Q1 and Q2, he preceded Leclerc himself: “It seemed that he was going well, in Q2 I was very fast. But for some reason I still don’t understand in Q3 we went slower compared to the previous session. I didn’t find the feeling with the car and we didn’t repeat the time of Q2, which would have been enough to be fifth or sixth. There is something to analyze in this, in view of the Sprint qualification“.
This instead the comment of the ds Mekies: “The work of Charles and his team in qualifying was great, with the group close together and less time to prepare, he worked a lot during qualifying. There were so many details to fix in the car. He worked a lot, given the few data this morning. It was a work session, in which in the end he had a great lap. The fourth place is deserved for the quality of this work. Too bad for Carlos, it had the same speed, but for a few tenths and is on the other side of the center-group. But the work done was good “.
On the mini race on Saturday: “Strategy ahead of tomorrow? It is not obvious that everyone starts with the soft. There is a lot of analytical work to be done and a lot of work planned for tomorrow morning, with a session dedicated only to that. The work isn’t done today. We have to work hard to optimize the machine and make the right choices ”.
OMNISPORT | 16-07-2021 21:23
