“I have no explanation”. – In this way, Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc had admitted that he did not know the reason for a very disappointing qualifying session at the Losail International Circuit for the 2021 Qatar Grand Prix and far from the performance of his teammate Carlos Sainz, who will start today’s race from P7.
The explanation came in the evening directly from Ferrari who found damage to the chassis of the SF21 #16 entrusted to the Monegasque. A big problem for the Maranello team, obviously forced to replace the chassis due to the failure encountered. Thus, at the end of very intense tour de force between Mexico, Brazil and Qatar, the Ferrari mechanics had to resume work on Charles Leclerc’s single-seater starting with 10:00 (Italian time) after having been able to operate for just an hour yesterday after Qualifying before the curfew took effect.
If the Ferrari mechanics manage to complete the operations in time as hypothesized by the official note issued by the Scuderia yesterday evening, Charles Leclerc will be able to line up regularly on the starting grid, otherwise he will be forced to start from the pit lane in a race in which overtaking promises to be very complicated, even if the race strategy should be based on two stops.
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