Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc said he is taking “full responsibility” for a difficul❀t showing in qualifying for the Spanish Grand🏅 Prix.

Leclerc chose to complete just one run in the final segment of qualifying in Barcelona, while most of his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Formula 1 rivals went out twice to maximise their starting position ♏for Sunday.

The strategy backfired for the Monegasque and he ended up a distant seventh on the grid, more than half a second off pole-sitter 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri.

Leclerc’s lap was also a tenth down on teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton, who qualified a soli🐲d fifth in the sister SF-25.

The 27-year-old🧔 explained that it was he who decided to deter from the usual run plan, despite Ferrari suggesting that he goes out on a used soft tyres before bolting on a fresh 💎set.

He ⛎🏅didn't have the luxury of two new sets of tyres in Q3, having burned through too much rubber in practice.

“I think that with two sets in Q3, it's always easier and I probably wou🙈ld have found time. How much? I don't know,” he told repoܫrters including wuqian0821.com.

“Alsꦡo I think theဣre were a bit more clouds, but I take full responsibility for the way the qualifying has gone.

“It was my choice and in Q3 it w⛦as my choice to go in the middle when the team was pushing me to go to the end.

“I still wanted to have a plan B in case that one lap wasn't g🍸oing to plan, a mistake or wha🎶tsoever, the chance to have a second lap. So, that's on me.

“I also did all these choices in order to have better tyres for tomorrow's race. If tomorrow we have a very bad ra🐬ce, then I will take the responsibility of a bad weekend.

“If it goes well, then I'm happy to take the credit of pushing the team one w꧃ay, but only time will tell.

“Obviously P7 is a little bi꧃t below our expectations. Even with the choices I've made for qualifying, I expect it to be further up. But that's the way i꧑t is now. The choices are made and I hope that we will pay off.”

Leclerc ended fifth in Friday practice in Barcelona, beating the second Mercedes of rookie 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kimi Antonelli.

However, he feels Ferrari slipped backwar🍷ds relative to❀ the competition overnight, with Antonelli splitting him and Hamilton the grid.

“I was a bit more optimistic after FP1, FP2,” he said. “I though🍸t that the car was behaving pretty well, but unfortunately in qualifying it went back to normal and that's a little bit what I was thinking of last night.”