Charles Leclerc salvaged a little pride for his beleaguered Ferrari team in qualifying for the 2021 Styrian Grand Prix on a weekend in which the Reds were seriously lacking firepower for their drivers.
Charles Leclerc tends to find an extra bit when it comes to quali, in today’s session he did just that again with a best effort of 1:04.472 which was good for seventh, but 0.6s shy of the top time at the ultra-short Red Bull Ring.
The Italian side headlined their Saturday press release from Spielberg: “A below average qualifying on Saturday in Spielberg.”
Ferrari racing director Laurent Mekies added: “As expected, this was a difficult session. Compared with what we have seen so far on Saturday afternoons, we were unable to reproduce our usual performance level over a single flying lap.”
“We tackled this Grand Prix with a slightly different approach to usual, working mainly towards the race after the problems we encountered last week in France. That’s not a mitigating factor, because I don’t think we could have done much better than this, looking at the performance of our main rivals, but it is something to bear in mind when looking at today’s results. From what we saw yesterday, our long-run pace is not bad compared to our closest competitors and we will try and exploit that tomorrow afternoon. Every day of this season is an opportunity to improve and to help make the team strong and today was no exception, an additional experience to make the most of, for the short and the long term,” Laurent Mekies concluded.
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