Throttled comeback for Leclerc that closes seventh. The Monegasque starts strong with the soft from 12th position a Jeddah. A unfortunate safety car interrupted a comeback that seemed promising for the number 16. When the safety car made its intervention, Leclerc he lost two places, one of which on Hamilton which gave rise to the complaint of the princeling dedicated to his engineer for not telling him in advance to speed up. After Charles didn't get the swap positions with Sainz, followed his partner until the end of the grand prix.
Leclerc: We will have to work to find something
The top Ferrari driver made himself heard, speaking of so much work to be done in bitter tones: "The first run was good I also managed the tires well starting on the soft, but then with the hard tires on this track you lose a lot if you don't have the DRS open, so I stayed at 1.4 or 1.5 for the whole race. At this point in the final laps I told myself to bring the car home and into the points, I couldn't do anything more. There is so much work to do, because if we look at where we would like to be, that is to win, there is still a long way to go. In Bahrain we were struggling with degradation, but honestly I thought the race pace here was closer to Red Bull. Unfortunately that was not the case. In two weeks we have Australia, but then we will have three weeks in which we will have to work to find something. It would also be important for the rest of the season. Where to improve? If we look at Red Bull they go faster on the straight and in the corners, but compared to the others we will analyze what our weak points are".
STATEMENT SOURCE: formulapassion
