The Maranello-based squad are at present not performing in addition to they – or anybody – had hoped. Within the Miami Grand Prix, for cases, they had been combating the broken Williams of Carlos Sainz, as a result of the opposite wholesome Williams had gone off within the horizon to bag P5.
It has been rumoured that the SF-25 at present has a squatting attribute, the place the rear of the automotive collapses upon load, extracting extra efficiency from the ground and gaining an aerodynamic benefit. Nonetheless, it’s not all roses and rainbows.
This additionally brings the ground of the automotive in additional contact with the tarmac, inflicting irregular put on to the skid beneath the automotive which the FIA makes use of to forestall groups from setting the trip peak decrease than prescribed.
Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz battle for place on the Miami Grand Prix
Miami highlighted weaknesses of Ferrari’s automotive
Talking after the qualifying session, Leclerc revealed that his automotive merely does not carry out properly in low velocity corners which the Miami Worldwide Autodrome has loads of.
“It’s irritating. However to be sincere, this weekend I really feel like, and that is most likely much more so irritating, is that I really feel we’re maximizing the potential of the automotive. It is simply that the potential of the automotive is simply not there,” mentioned Leclerc to media in Miami, together with GPblog, after qualifying.
“Once I end a lap, once more as we speak in qualifying, I really feel very happy with my lap, nevertheless it’s solely bringing us no matter it’s, P8 or one thing. So yeah, we have got to have a look at it.”
“I feel a observe like this additionally highlights our weaknesses. There’s a variety of low-speed content material. Each Williams are in entrance of us, and I think about my lap a great one. So I feel it is fairly simple to know the place we’re missing.”
Charles Leclerc leads teammate Lewis Hamilton on the Miami Grand Prix in Ferrari’s SF-25
‘We’re simply not quick’
Is that this to do with the ideas that Ferrari had been pressured to lift the automotive to keep away from it is squatting trait to immediate a disqualification like they suffered in China with each automobiles?
“I feel it is coincidence as a result of we did not change something,” mentioned Leclerc. “I do know what you are talking about and we’ve not modified something of that. So we’re simply not quick.”
“No matter we do with the automotive, we are able to run it in numerous methods. However we simply haven’t got the downforce that the others have in the intervening time, particularly at low speeds. So there is not any doubt.”
