Charles Leclerc Reveals Ferrari Weakness After Disappointing Miami GP

Ferrari arrived in Miami with more new parts than anyone else on the grid and left with more questions than answers. The Scuderia confirmed eleven updates to the SF-26, and yet the team came away with sixth and seventh place (before time penalties), a result that doesn’t reflect what the SF-26 showed it was capable of over the course of the weekend. The problem wasn’t the upgrade package itself, at least not according to Charles Leclerc .

It was what happened to the car ‘s tyres once the race started in earnest. Leclerc admitted the team has work to do after a promising start to the Miami weekend turned into a frustrating Sunday, with the Red car unable to match the pace it had shown in the sprint and qualifying. “With the mediums, we weren’t performing well.

We had a lot of degradation,” he said after the race. The switch to the harder compound didn’t immediately fix things either. “With the hard tires , it wasn’t great at the beginning, then the pace improved and it was a little better, but we never got back to the level we were at on Saturday.

” The Upgrade Worked – the Problem Is Everyone Else’s Did Too That gap between Saturday and Sunday is what Leclerc is pushing the team to explain. “We need to analyze this. We’ve lost a lot of performance since then, and I’d like to understand exactly what happened.