The rumors were constant since yesterday evening, but there was still no confirmation. Official that in the end, as expected, has arrived. There Ferrari will mount the fourth power unit of the season on Charles Leclerc's F1-75. For the Monegasque therefore, Canada promises to be a comeback race.
Everything changes
It will be an uphill race for Leclerc. The number sixteen in fact, with the new power unit, it will pop from the bottom of the grid. Ferrari therefore did not want to risk and, already counting the penalty taken yesterday is preferably used for unit, and the one that would have arrived today for the turbo, he preferred to mount a new engine to allow Leclerc to push as hard as possible. In fact, the objective of the Monegasque must be the same: try to have an incredible race pace, which also explains the work done yesterday during free time.
Ferrari, head only to the race
Canada is certainly not a very simple track, but to overcome however it is not impossible. However, the focus of the Monegasque is on the race, as he also stated yesterday.
“It's great to be back on this track, it has a lot of character and driving here is always fun, especially because you have to hit the curbs a lot. It was a good starting day, I would say, where we made some progress on set-up between the first and second sessions. As always here, the track evolved a lot as we went around and the wind was very strong at times, even if it didn't affect my work that much. Now we will focus on the race to prepare it in the best possible way“.
It's not over here
During the season, during the classic programming of the stables, the Ferrari he had already considered to face some penalty, mounting the fourth power unit. But this moment has come too soon. The knockouts had at Barcelona, and then to Baku, have been a huge problem for the stable of the pony which, as of today, declares itself ready also to mount a possible fifth engine during the season.
Ferrari, Leclerc inside in qualifying?
The question that everyone is asking now is: what will he do Leclerc during qualifying? In the afternoon, some rumors circulated regarding the possibility that the Monegasque could not participate at the most important event on Saturday. The reason? The rain. In fact, if it were to be, as it seems, a wet qualifying, the teams would be forced to modify some set-up components, to then bring them to the race after parc ferme. The Monegasque instead, not taking part in the qualifications, will be able to bring to the track a set-up focused solely and exclusively on tomorrow's race.
The help to the teammate
However, it is not excluded that in the end Leclerc and the red they don't think of to help Sainz, in a possible wake, as (with Leclerc out of contention at the start) the Spaniard will become the team's top driver for this weekend.
What will happen? We will find out shortly, considering that the green light of qualifications which will arrive at 22.00 pm!
STATEMENT SOURCE: FormulaPassion
