Leclerc says Ferrari was one second per lap slower than Red Bull in the BahrainGP before he was forced to retire from the race. F1
Speaking immediately after the race, Leclerc didn't know the cause of his retirement from the race but was already frustrated by Ferrari's pace deficit to Red Bull which he estimated to be one second per lap.
"I cannot say it feels good," Leclerc, who had his Ferrari's energy store in the power unit changed before the race, said. "Obviously, there was quite a lot of work on that [over the winter] but we need to keep working because obviously first race and first reliability problem were not good. "I was as confident as I could be, being one second off of the pace, which is not really confident, to be honest.Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-23, Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing RB19"In terms of quali pace, they are actually pretty similar to us, at least we managed to extract the lap time yesterday, but then we come to the race and we are one second a lap off the pace which was huge.
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