“Not sure what we can do for tomorrow”: Charles Leclerc leaves the Mexican GP 2022 Qualifying utterly upset after ranking lower than Bottas’ Alfa Romeo
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Qualifying Saturdays are often the brighter part of the Grand Prix weekends for Scuderia Ferrari racer Charles Leclerc. But, in a shocking turn of events, that was not the case during the Mexican GP Qualifying Session. The Monegasque drew up behind the Haas of Valtteri Bottas and settled into P7, after lapping at 0.7 seconds slower than pole-sitter Max Verstappen. Meanwhile, Charles’ teammate Carlos Sainz who qualified in P1 at the previous Grand Prix in the USA, could only get a P5 position to seal a third row start for himself tomorrow.
The Maranello outfit was not having the best of performances going into the qualis since both the Ferraris had disappointing results in FP3 due to some speed issues. Unfortunately for the team, it seemed like those problems were back to plague them during the Qualifying since Charles Leclerc repeatedly complained on the team radio that there was something wrong with the car and he could not go into full throttle with it.
While they had started the season on a high with the powerful F1-75 racecar and two ambitious drivers in their favor, Ferrari’s fall from grace in the 2022 season has been disappointing. While the team was leading the charts after the initial few races, they soon lost the position to Red Bull, and are now somehow clinging onto the second position, being threatened by Mercedes at every race. Amidst all this, Charles Leclerc hoped for a Mexican GP pole to bring a race win to his team, but chances for that seem to be slim as of now.
“We were just slow”: Charles Leclerc sounded dejected after his run at the Mexican GP Qualifying
The Mexican Grand Prix is at a considerable height from the sea level, and many of the racers have spoken about the trouble of driving on the tracks at such an altitude. But while describing his troubles with the car, Charles Leclerc vehemently said it was not altitude, but something else was “definitely wrong” with the F1-75.
He also said, “We had quite a lot of problems with the engines today. We need to look into that. I had bad drivability in the high speed. The car was not responding to what I was doing on the throttle, and we were just slow.“
The Mexican Grand Prix is only the third-last round of racing for the current F1 2022 season. If Ferrari want to end the season on the same note with which they had started it off, then Charles and Carlos’ have a big responsibility upon their shoulders–they need to bring a race win to the team. While their Qualifying performance was not favorable, Mexican GP is known to be a tricky racetrack and anything might be possible at the Main Race at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez tomorrow.
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