Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc admits that “we’re struggling massively with the automotive” after a lacklustre weekend within the Singapore Grand Prix for himself and staff mate Lewis Hamilton.
The Scuderia have been off the tempo of the main runners in Sunday’s race on the Marina Bay Road Circuit, with Leclerc taking a lonely sixth, some 46s behind race winner George Russell.
Leclerc has now failed to achieve the rostrum within the final 5 races, his most up-to-date rostrum coming on the Belgium GP, and the Monegasque admits that Mercedes and Pink Bull have taken noticeable steps ahead over latest races.
“It is powerful, it’s totally powerful. We’re not sturdy for the time being and we’re struggling massively with the automotive. It is not simple,” stated Leclerc.
“I want I might say that I am optimistic for the remainder of the season, I do not suppose there’s something within the automotive that proves to me that we’re going to do a step ahead.
“I believe that is the truth of our state of affairs for the time being. I do not fairly know methods to flip that state of affairs round as a result of we do not have new components or something coming to the automotive.
“We did steps ahead [at the start of the season] however the others did as nicely so the hole stayed form of the identical after which Pink Bull form of discovered two steps in a season.
“First half after which in Monza extra lately the place they did a very large step ahead, and now Mercedes appears to have carried out this step ahead and we’re the one one that did not discover that resolution.”
Hamilton endured an much more irritating Sunday in Singapore, having made a second late pit cease for comfortable tyres which appeared prefer it may pay dividends as he handed Leclerc and was closing on Kimi Antonelli for fifth.
However the seven-time World Champion suffered a brake concern within the closing few laps, forcing him to drop his tempo dramatically as he slumped to seventh before a post-race penalty for chopping the observe on a number of events relegated him to P8.
“I really feel ache for all of the staff from catering to advertising, to the fellows within the storage and engineers who present up each weekend, they usually actually do give completely every thing however the automotive we now have is sadly not of the extent of the fellows forward of us,” he stated.
“Notably as they’ve had some upgrades and we won’t match them. We’re on a knife-edge making an attempt to get as shut as we will.”
