🗣️'It feels good to finally have a clean qualifying again and to be back on the front row.' Charles Leclerc says he didn't expect to be as close to Red Bull after he and Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz qualified second and third for F1's Austrian GP ⬇️
to this weekend's Red Bull Ring sprint event as part of its strategy to fast-track plenty of smaller upgrades.
"I don't think we expected to be so close to the Red Bulls, so it's a good step forward," said Leclerc after"First of all, I would like to thank all the guys back at the factory. It's only qualifying but the work they've done in the last two, three weeks in order to bring the package earlier than what it was planned was really, really impressive. And that helped us to have a good performance today.
"I've managed to put everything that I wanted in the last lap of Q3, very close to Max but not enough today." "Race pace looked quite good in Montreal, but again, consistency is where we need to focus," Leclerc acknowledged.
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