{"id":140897,"date":"2025-05-29T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140897\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:09:09","slug":"why-ferrari-is-unconvinced-it-can-sustain-monaco-form-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140897\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ferrari is unconvinced it can sustain Monaco form in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Leclerc has expressed doubt on Ferrari <\/a>being able to sustain the team\u2019s surprise competitiveness in Monaco at this weekend\u2019s Formula 1<\/a> Spanish Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Leclerc went into his home round dampening Ferrari\u2019s expectations amid the anticipation that Monte Carlo would expose the SF-25\u2019s limitations in low-speed corners.<\/p>\n

But having headed all three practice sessions, the Monegasque qualified on the front row and then converted that in the race to notch his second podium this season.<\/p>\n

Leclerc suspects Monaco\u2019s unique characteristics allowed Ferrari to place an emphasis on maximising the car\u2019s performance at slow speed without a loss elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The eight-time F1 race winner has acknowledged that repeating that approach won\u2019t be possible at other tracks, though, including at this weekend\u2019s race in Barcelona<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the only explanation I can find for now is that on a track like this, where there\u2019s only low speed \u2013 basically no high-speed corners \u2013 in most of the tracks, we had to take compromises in order to not lose too much in high-speed corners,\u201d Leclerc explained to media including Motorsport Week<\/strong> in Monaco.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have to set up the car in a way where we compromise anything here because we just focus on the low speed. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when we are on these kinds of tracks, it seems that there\u2019s some performance in the low speed from the car. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut we are a little bit stuck at the moment on other tracks, so I don\u2019t think we can apply it to any other tracks other than Monaco, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CharlesFerrari is hopeful its planned new front wing will help improve performance<\/p>\n

Was Monaco a false dawn for Ferrari?<\/p>\n

But while Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur is also remaining grounded, the Frenchman is optimistic the side has made progress towards improving its pace over a single lap.<\/p>\n

\u201cMiami was a bit different for traffic, but at least Jeddah and Imola, it was almost the\u00a0same spec for us that we were struggling in quali on tyre management,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese two races\u00a0with Miami also that we didn\u2019t improve with a set of new, we did our fastest lap with\u00a0a scrub set in quali and then when you start P10, P9, it\u2019s much more difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was 11th or 12th in Imola. But in Imola, in Jeddah, I think our race pace was decent. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were fighting with\u00a0McLaren, probably we were the fastest in Jeddah on track and at the end of the day\u00a0it was a matter of quali that this weekend. <\/p>\n

\u201cEven if we were not happy with P2, I think\u00a0we did a much better job in the preparation of the weekend, it went well. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s not\u00a0that we are on those two-day racing and it will work on every single track.\u00a0I think that this is true for us, this is true for everybody on the grid. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith the tyres\u00a0sometimes you finish the weekend and you have the feeling to have everything under control.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to start from scratch a week after and that we have to keep an open mind\u00a0and spend next week and do a good job again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

READ MORE \u2013 <\/strong>How Ferrari has prepared for new \u2018game-changing\u2019 F1 rule change<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc has expressed doubt on Ferrari being able to sustain the team\u2019s surprise competitiveness in Monaco at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[5070,4199,997,707,4200,61060,79,16,15,26493],"class_list":{"0":"post-140897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-charles-leclerc","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-ferrari","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-spanishgp","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-vasseur"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114590106605486235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}