Charles Leclerc blames “very weird” Ferrari F1 car behaviour for shock Q1 exit at Spanish GP

Charles Leclerc is adamant an issue with his Ferrari F1 car led to his shock Q1 elimination in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix. 
Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari SF
Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari SF

The 🐼Monegasque, who was on pole 🃏in Barcelona 12 months ago, struggled for pace in the first part of qualifying and complained of car problems throughout the session. 

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Lecler💙c was ultimately dumped out of qualifying with the second-slowest time in 19th. 

"I don't have the answer for🐻 now,” Leclerc said. “For now, the only thing I can say is that the left-hand corners were undriveable," he said.

"Through the right-hand corners the feeling was very simila🦩r to this morning, but there's jus🐼t something off in the left-hand corners that we need to analyse and understand because it was very far off what I expected.”

Leclerc said he initially suspected the problem to be related t⭕o his first set of tyres, but realis🦋ed that wasn’t the case after switching onto a brand new set of softs. 

"I thought it was the tyres on th🌞e first set, but then we went 🐓on the second set, and the feeling was exactly the same,” he explained. 

"I just had no grip in the left-hand corners from the rears, so we'll check the car well and I wouldꦆ be very surprised 🏅if everything was fine.

"Even in the tricky coꦍnditions of this morning, I was feeling really good with the car, 🐠so there's something off.”

Leclerc concluded: "I had so🦋 many moments and even during the fir🀅st red flag I nearly lost it and put it into the gravel in a left-hand corner," he explained.

"This was just very, very weird behaviour, so we'll have to chဣeck thꦍe car."

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