Ferrari racer Charles Lecrerc mentioned “engine issues” gave him zero factors on the Formulation 1 (F1) Canadian GP, Gilles-Villeneuve Circuit, Montreal, Sunday (9/6), after a DNF or failure to complete.
After he and his teammate, Carlos Sainz have been in P11 and P12 in qualifying on Saturday (8/6), each of them struggled to get a place from the midfield because the race progressed. Issues then went from unhealthy to worse for Leclerc when his SF-24 began experiencing engine issues so he and the workforce selected to gamble by switching to slick tires on lap 29.
Nonetheless, this step failed to provide outcomes and the racer from Monaco selected to return to the pits to retire his automobile on lap 43 of a complete of 70 laps.
“Actually there’s not way more to say aside from engine issues value us all the pieces,” mentioned Leclerc as quoted by BetweenTuesday (11/6).
“Then at one level we tried to make use of slick tires after we knew it could occur, extra probabilities that it would not work, however we needed to take a look at one thing as a result of with the engine issues we have been having, we might have been out,” he added.
“After that, it was very troublesome to make all of the engine adjustments that the workforce requested for, on the similar time I nonetheless misplaced one and a half seconds in a row. We’ve got to examine the engine downside as a result of will probably be a troublesome downside for the remainder of the season,” he continued.
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Though Leclerc known as the engine complaints one thing that wanted to be investigated, he additionally reminded his workforce to not be too affected by this troublesome weekend after a passable end result on the Monaco GP two weeks in the past with two podiums for his workforce.
“I imply, you will have good weekends, you will have unhealthy weekends. Yesterday we missed Q3 by three hundredths, we clearly felt uncomfortable with the automobile and now we have to repair it and attempt to perceive what went unsuitable,” he mentioned.
“So, though we did not overreact after Monaco, we additionally should not overreact after this race. However this one hurts. It is a large level for the workforce, with two DNF vehicles, that we’re going to lose in opposition to our opponents, and engine-wise , that is one thing we have to take note of,” he continued,
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As with Leclerc, it was an equally robust day for Sainz who discovered himself out of the race within the closing levels of the race after his automobile spun on the exit of Flip 7 which triggered him to fail to complete.
“There wasn’t a lot velocity this weekend, even on the inter tyre, we anticipated it is perhaps a bit stronger there,” mentioned the Spaniard. “However, sure, there was a variety of slipping and there was no feeling with the automobile,” he added.
Moreover, after each failing to complete in Montreal, Sainz mentioned his workforce needed to get better within the subsequent race of the collection which shall be performed in two weeks to be exact on the Spanish GP on the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit on June 23.
“I believe it will solely occur as soon as and in Barcelona now we have to return to our regular state,” mentioned Sainz.
Though they each failed to complete in Montreal, their positions on the standings haven’t modified, with Lecrerc nonetheless in second place with 138 factors and Sainz nonetheless in fourth place with 108 factors. The identical factor additionally occurred on the constructors’ standings the place Ferrari remains to be in second place with 252 factors. (Z-6)
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