🗣️'We are fast in qualifying, but we are not fast in the race, and it's not by a little.' Charles Leclerc says that the Red Bull F1 team is 'on another planet', citing the 'crazy difference' in race pace with that of Ferrari seen in Bahrain ⬇️
Charles Leclerc says that the Red Bull Formula 1 team is"on another planet", citing the"crazy difference" in race pace with that of Ferrari seen in Bahrain.Leclerc qualified third for the season opener and, having saved a new set of soft tyres, he was able to jump Sergio Perez at the start.
"I mean, for now, we don't know. We are fast in qualifying, but we are not fast in the race, and it's not by a little. Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB19, Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-23, Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing RB19Asked by Autosport if Ferrari had made the straight-line gains it had hoped for, he said:"Yes, but we are lacking in corners now."
"We need to push more in order to extract the performance out of the car so then the degradation comes up. We need to look into it because for now we are really far from the winning race pace.
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