We enter a briefing from the Ferrari F1 team listening to Leclerc’s comments on the car after free practice for the Bahrain GP.
THE briefing in Formula 1 they are among the most important moments top secret on a race weekend. In these meetings the teams Indeed they openly discuss every aspect regarding the track: from the set-up of the car, to the program of the following sessions, up to codifying the very secret “plans” of the race strategies. Obviously everything starts from commentary from the pilots, which provide engineers with inputs on the behavior of the single-seater, to be processed and translated into engineering terms. It is precisely this situation that was taken up by CANAL+, in particular the feedback provided by Leclerc during the Ferrari briefing after free practice of the F1 weekend in Bahrain.
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Leclerc’s comments in the Ferrari F1 briefing
We are in the introductory phase of the briefingduring which the pilots provide general comments on all aspects of the track: car, tyres, qualifying simulation and race pace, to be explored in greater detail later.
Leclerc starts right away analyzing the tiresin particular the C3 compound, stating from a qualifying perspective how many timed laps they could provide:
“On the first lap I stayed well under the limit. The second lap gave me the impression that the C3 could do more laps. However, on the second run, that wasn’t the case at all“.
The Ferrari driver continues analyzing the behavior of the carhighlighting a gap in the combined tractionor while you are still on the curve:
“I locked up in turn 4, I think because I probably went a little too wide when braking and, from that moment on, especially on the rear, the combined traction It’s gotten a lot worse. So it was a lot from there difficult to maintain the same trust entering and exiting corners, especially low speed ones“.
Finally, n°16 addresses the topic race pacefocusing on level of tire management in some corners:
“As for the full tank runs, everything seemed in line. I did the first laps more calmly than this morning, which helped me get into a rhythm. I agree with Carlos that curve 12 seems too slow and 6-7 seem definitely too fast” and concludes “but I’ll go into more detail later, thanks“.
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