'No power, no power!' Ferrari's Charles Leclerc explains F1 Bahrain GP retirement
Leclerc stopped on track on La꧂p 41 of Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix after his engine suddenly cut out - a worrying return for reliability issues which blighted 2022 for Ferrari.
The Monegasque reported he had "𓃲no power" as he ground to a halt after running in third place behind the Red Bull duo of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.&ꦿnbsp;
A Feဣrrari spokesperson said "we seem to ha💯ve lost the engine on Charles' car".
It marks a huge setback to Leclerc after Ferrari had already been forced to take on a new energy store before the fi♛rst race of the season.
Leclerc🅷 has already used up 50 percent of his energy store allocation for the year and could be set for further engine headaches down the line, given hi🍎s failure in Bahrain.
“I couldn’t do anything after ♐that,” he said after revealing there was "zero" warning of his engine shutdown.
“We need to keep working because obviously first race and first reliabili꧅ty problem🔯s, so not good.”
Asked about his race beജfore retiring, he said: "I mean, as confident as I can be being a second off the pace, which is not really confident to be honest.
“Red Bull seems to have found something really big during the race pace. In terms of qualy pa🥀ce, they are actually pretty similar to us or at least we managed to extract the lap time yesterday, but then we come to the race and we are a second every lap off the pace, which is huge.
“Bahrain is also a very specific track, so ♒I hope that the picture can change a little bit𝕴 from the next race, but we cannot rely on that, we need to work and find something.
“So, weꦿ really 🐬need to work into that, plus the reliability.”
Max Verstappen won the first race of the season.
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