Charles Leclerc was forced to retire from a BahrainGP where Ferrari were alarmingly a second per lap adrift of the dominant Red Bull team. F12023 F1
Ferrari and Leclerc had made a tactical call in qualifying to snub a final attempt at pole position, to instead save an extra set of soft tyres for the race.
Through Turn 12 Leclerc would suffer a sudden loss of power, and having trundled through Turn 13 was forced to park the poorly SF-23 at the side of the track down the back straight. Interestingly, Ferrari had changed the Energy Store on Leclerc’s SF-23 ahead of the race, with the team later confirming that it was a power unit problem which had spelt the end for Leclerc’s race.
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