The Italian squad had impressed in Friday observe however, in its preparations for qualifying, the crew appeared to lack tempo firstly of the lap relative to the automobiles forward of it within the battle for pole place.
GPS traces present that his Ferrari was between 3-4kph slower on the straights in comparison with the 2 McLarens, and much more in arrears in comparison with polesitter Max Verstappen – due to the tow the Pink Bull driver picked up from Nico Hulkenberg.
Leclerc felt that Ferrari’s final grid positions, which grew to become third and fourth when Oscar Piastri was given a three-place grid drop for impeding Kevin Magnussen in FP1, value a shot at something greater than third.
“Wanting again at yesterday, reanalysing qualifying. I feel we principally misplaced all the pieces on the launch [of the lap] for some purpose,” he stated.
“We had a barely completely different energy technique in comparison with McLaren and Pink Bull, and we misplaced all the pieces on the run right down to Flip 2 – Max, on high of that, had the slipstream.
“That is one thing we’ll need to look into as a result of, particularly on a observe like this, observe place is totally all the pieces.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-24, Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38
Photograph by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Images
“If you solely have a tenth in between Pink Bull, McLaren, and ourselves, we have to do all the pieces good and the third place at the moment value us perhaps a greater outcome within the race.”
Explaining his first impressions of Ferrari’s complete suite of upgrades for the Imola race, Leclerc contended that it was troublesome to evaluate them given the calls for of the Imola circuit.
However he was assured that the crew had attained its targets with the brand new bodywork, flooring, and wings that it had put in for its residence race.
“I feel to start with, it is not the most effective observe to evaluate upgrades, principally as a result of kerb-riding is such a factor right here that when you have automotive on kerbs, then that would conceal a bit extra what’s the actual order,” the Monegasque stated.
“The great factor is that all the pieces we anticipated from these upgrades, we had it when it comes to information. It did precisely what it was speculated to do, which is all the time factor.”