‘I knew there was nowhere out’ - Charles Leclerc explains crash on way to F1 sprint pole
Leclerc made it two pole positions in as many days as he outpaced both Red Bulls and topped qualifying for Saturday’s sprint race despite crashing on his final lap of🦩 the session.
After going top of the timesheet with his first SQ3 run, Leclerc then hit the barriers at Turn 5 oꦫn his second and final attempt.
Explaining the incident, Lecler𝓡c told Sky Sports F1: “Honestly I tried to use a bit more track on the inside of Turn 5 but for some reason today the track was not as clean as yesterday.
“There was a lot of dust on track and by using too much, I lost it. And then basically when you are offline I couldn’t stop th🐬e car anym🍸ore.
“I lost the rear and then all I had in mind was to try and hit the wall as straight as possible to not damage the rear 🌳of the car, because we know that is a long time to repair it.
“I tried to catch it and then I kᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnew there was nowhere out after that.”
Leclerc said he is confi🦩dent his Ferrari car is not badly damaged.&🐼nbsp;
“I don’t think there’s that muc😼h damage, only the front wing,” the Monegasque adde🎐d.
“We will o🤡f course check absolutely 𒀰everything to make sure there are no troubles at the start of the race. But it wasn’t too big of a crash.”
And Leclerc is expecting a tough battle to keep 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen behind him in the sprint race give🅠n Red Bull’s superior performance on the Baku straigh♔ts.
"We need to really work on our car in race pace,” he acknowledged. “I think we have done some steps forwards after Austꦡralia but we still need to confirm it.
"We have seen Red Bull's DRS power. It will be a big challenge with the DRS activating♚ after one lap in the Sprint. I will have pressure from behind but I will try and make💫 the difference in the second sector.
"It's all about risk management and I will try and do the best job possible. For the race I know where the limit 🅷is and hopefully I will stay as close to it as possible without overstepping.
"We have some new parts coming in the next few races. We need to be patient now and if we're not fast enough to win this weekend let's take as many po꧟ints as possible."
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