F1 News: Charles Leclerc Hits Rock Bottom After Ferrari's Lack Of Miami GP Pace

Charles Leclerc has complained about the erratic Ferrari SF-23 over the Miami Grand Prix weekend, saying that the car lacks consistency and is massively affected by the wind.

The Monegasque driver started the race from seventh position after a crash during qualifying. He went on to finish the race in the same position with his Ferrari teammate crossing the line in fifth.

During a post-race interview with Autosport, Leclerc explained:

“I was speaking just now with Carlos and what we are lacking is consistency from the car.

“Not even from corner to corner, just in the same corner I can have a huge oversteery balance and then a huge understeery balance, and our car is so wind-effected.

“This year we have a car that is much more wind sensitive, and we are struggling much more with that. So there is a lot of work going on that.

“Other than that, for some reason this is off because it is not something I have had for the rest of the weekend so we’ll have to check the car, but I had a lot of bottoming especially in high speeds which is something I can’t quite explain, because I didn’t have that yesterday. So this we’ll have a look at in the data.”

The Ferrari driver went on to clarify that it was difficult on both the medium and hard tyres. He continued:

“It was the same. At the end of the hards once the graining cleared up a bit it was a tiny bit better, but we are just lacking pace and consistency.

“I think it has been similar since the beginning of the season as every single race we are going from one compound to the other and we never know what is going to happen on a new compound, so it is always an unknown how the car is going to react, and if the tyres are going to be in the right window.

“And this is just very difficult as a driver to gain the confidence and adapt your driving, because you go from one set to the other and the car is completely in a different window.”

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