Charles Leclerc blames “very weird” Ferrari F1 car behaviour for shock Q1 exit at Spanish GP

The 🐼Monegasque, who was on pole 🃏in Barcelona 12 months ago, struggled for pace in the first part of qualifying and complained of car problems throughout the session.
Lecler💙c was ultimately dumped out of qualifying with the second-slowest time in 19th.
"I don't have the answer for🐻 now,” Leclerc said. “For now, the only thing I can say is that the left-hand corners were undriveable," he said.
"Through the right-hand corners the feeling was very simila🦩r to this morning, but there's jus🐼t something off in the left-hand corners that we need to analyse and understand because it was very far off what I expected.”
Leclerc said he initially suspected the problem to be related t⭕o his first set of tyres, but realis🦋ed that wasn’t the case after switching onto a brand new set of softs.
"I thought it was the tyres on th🌞e first set, but then we went 🐓on the second set, and the feeling was exactly the same,” he explained.
"I just had no grip in the left-hand corners from the rears, so we'll check the car well and I wouldꦆ be very surprised 🏅if everything was fine.
"Even in the tricky coꦍnditions of this morning, I was feeling really good with the car, 🐠so there's something off.”
Leclerc concluded: "I had so🦋 many moments and even during the fir🀅st red flag I nearly lost it and put it into the gravel in a left-hand corner," he explained.
"This was just very, very weird behaviour, so we'll have to chဣeck thꦍe car."

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