Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel will start from the fifth and sixth rows of the grid respectively for the 50th Spanish Grand Prix, when it gets underway today at 15.10 at the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit, with the Monegasque ninth, two places ahead of his team-mate.
Scuderia Ferrari Sporting Director Laurent Mekies talks about the Maranello team’s target in today’s Spainish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya:
“It was a difficult qualifying, with Charles’ ninth place and Sebastian’s eleventh pretty similar to last week’s performance. We were unable to optimise the car performance as the track evolved and we paid a high price for that with our grid positions. If you look at by how little Sebastian missed the cut to Q3 and then Charles’ performance in the final part, it’s clear that a very small improvement would have delivered a better result. Having said that, we have to work out why the car balance was far from ideal this afternoon.
It will be a difficult race tomorrow with high temperatures giving the drivers, cars and tyres a hard time. In fact, tyre management will be one of the key factors, with several strategy options available. It will be up to us to make the best of it. In the last two races, we managed it and we’d like to do the same again tomorrow. Our aim is for both our drivers to finish as high up the order as possible in the points, trying to defend our third place in the Constructors’ Championship, which has to be our minimum target for the season.” – Scuderia Ferrari Sporting Director Laurent Mekies explained at the end of the qualifying session.
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