{"id":50661,"date":"2025-03-15T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T09:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/50661\/ferrari-leclerc-hopes-for-rain-we-sacrificed-qualifying-but-the-result-is-quite-disappointing\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T09:54:34","slug":"ferrari-leclerc-hopes-for-rain-we-sacrificed-qualifying-but-the-result-is-quite-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/50661\/ferrari-leclerc-hopes-for-rain-we-sacrificed-qualifying-but-the-result-is-quite-disappointing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari, Leclerc hopes for rain: &#8220;We sacrificed qualifying, but the result is quite disappointing.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disappointment for the seventh place from Charles Leclerc, who, however, is already focusing on tomorrow\u2019s race. <\/h2>\n\n<p>As <strong>Charles Leclerc<\/strong> stated yesterday, he was definitely aiming for pole position, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DHNhhKOoZ_f\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monegasque<\/a> driver only managed to secure seventh place, almost seven-tenths behind Norris&#8217; McLaren. A significant step back for <strong>Ferrari,<\/strong> which capped its performance, with both drivers, in the final session of <a href=\"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/50591\/f1-qualifying-in-australia-a-monstrous-pole-by-norris-ahead-of-piastri-and-verstappen-ferrari-performs-poorly\/\">qualifying<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmD1GRoWEAAg5u5-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Ferrari, Leclerc hopes for rain: &quot;We sacrificed qualifying, but the result is quite disappointing.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-50594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmD1GRoWEAAg5u5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmD1GRoWEAAg5u5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmD1GRoWEAAg5u5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmD1GRoWEAAg5u5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmD1GRoWEAAg5u5-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmD1GRoWEAAg5u5-1170x780.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmD1GRoWEAAg5u5-585x390.jpg 585w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmD1GRoWEAAg5u5-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmD1GRoWEAAg5u5.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ferrari, Leclerc hopes for rain: &#8220;We sacrificed qualifying, but the result is quite disappointing.&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>A result stemming from a higher-downforce setup (in anticipation of a possible wet race tomorrow), but one that doesn&#8217;t justify such a clear step back. <strong>Leclerc<\/strong> tried to analyze it with these statements: <em> &#8220;Since this morning, the performance has not been the same as yesterday. I think I know the reason, but we need to analyze the data. We made the right choice; we knew we had to sacrifice some performance: clearly, it&#8217;s not what we want, but it was necessary for this weekend. I won&#8217;t go into details. Seventh and eighth position are definitely disappointing, I never would have expected it, not even in the worst-case scenarios. As I said before the weekend, and now it\u2019s important to remember, this is just a starting point.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>The Monegasque then added: <em>\u201cWe need to work, the season is long, and it doesn\u2019t make sense to look for miracles tomorrow. The goal will be to collect points and then, step by step, we\u2019ll get back to the front. I\u2019m sure this car has potential, but today we were outside the right window, and it was clearly visible. In the first attempt in Q3, I was satisfied, but not in the last one. The car changed a lot between Q2 and Q3, and I couldn\u2019t get the feeling back. Overall, I can\u2019t be happy: it was a car that was difficult to drive. There are still many unknowns for tomorrow, we\u2019ll see, but as always, I\u2019ll give my best.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Photo: X Scuderia Ferrari<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disappointment for the seventh place from Charles Leclerc, who, however, is already focusing on tomorrow\u2019s race. As Charles Leclerc stated yesterday, he was definitely aiming for pole position, but the Monegasque driver only managed to secure seventh place, almost seven-tenths behind Norris&#8217; McLaren. A significant step back for Ferrari, which capped its performance, with both &#8230; <a title=\"Ferrari, Leclerc hopes for rain: &#8220;We sacrificed qualifying, but the result is quite disappointing.&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/50661\/ferrari-leclerc-hopes-for-rain-we-sacrificed-qualifying-but-the-result-is-quite-disappointing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ferrari, Leclerc hopes for rain: &#8220;We sacrificed qualifying, but the result is quite disappointing.&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":50616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[2643,3253,3265,1937],"piloti":[1982],"class_list":["post-50661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1-en","tag-ferrari-2025-en","tag-gp-australia-2025-en","tag-qualifying-australia","tag-scuderia-ferrari-hp-en","piloti-charles-leclerc-en"],"acf":{"live":false},"fimg_url":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmDsYEObUAAomsG.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50661"},{"taxonomy":"piloti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/piloti?post=50661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}