F1 News: Charles Leclerc Puts Ferrari Worries to Rest

Ferrari discovered an electrical problem on Charles Leclerc's SF-23 Formula 1 car during lunch break which made him spend most of his FP2 practice time in the garage.

Luckily, Leclerc says it was an electrical issue so it won't mostly bother them during the race on Sunday. However, he stressed that almost everything on the car had to be changed for it to get running again. He said:

“There was a small problem on the car but it’s like this. I think the team has identified what went wrong.

We’ve changed basically everything that was on the car and it should be fine for tomorrow.

An electrical issue, so it shouldn't have any influence on our weekend, apart from the lack of kilometres and laps in FP2.”

Leclerc missed out on a dry FP2 session on Friday. Saturday's practice might be wet as a result of the rain that is being forecasted while Sunday's forecast appears to be sunny.

If the weather worked as per the forecast, this might prove to be tricky for the 25-year-old racer since Saturday's practice will see him drive in the wet whereas Sunday's race will happen in dry conditions. Speaking about the dilemma, Leclerc said:

“That’s a bit unfortunate because that’s where we normally prepare the race and Sunday seems to be dry, so we’ll go a little bit into the unknown there.

But tomorrow should be very different with rain around, so let's see.

In FP1, of course we learnt a few things, then we did all the changes to learn more in FP2 that we couldn't test, so that's a bit of a shame.

I think we'll come back with the car I had in FP1 as the feeling was pretty good, then learning when you don't drive is pretty difficult."