Leclerc: “I don’t expect to be competitive. Silverstone and Spa not favorable for us”

Leclerc skeptical towards Silverstone Charles Leclerc arrives at Silverstone with the desire to leave behind a complicated weekend in Austria. After an encouraging qualifying but “helped” by Max Verstappen’s accident at the end of Q3, the Monegasque had the pace of a shrimp in the race due to a Ferrari in which he found neither rhythm nor confidence in the braking phase. If at least the brake problem can be limited this weekend, the British track can expose the real issue of the SF-26, the lack of top speed. And the Monegasque, like his teammate Lewis Hamilton, does not have great confidence either for Silverstone or for Spa. Leclerc’s words “It is not a weekend in which we expect to be particularly competitive, for the same reasons as in Austria. Here there are many more straights and there are not many corners in which to recover energy, so I expect a difficult weekend for us. Unfortunately the next two weekends, on paper, are not very favorable to our car, but we will do our best”, this is the comment of the driver Ferrari driver. “Saturday in Austria went much better, while on Sunday in the race we weren’t as competitive and I also struggled with some aspects, so I continue to work, keep my head down and hope for better days to come.” “Mine is definitely not the level of performance I’m looking for,” he added of his difficult period. “I arrived very early this morning, in the last few days I’ve only been looking at data, basically. I’m not satisfied, but I don’t think we should generalize the situation for the new regulations, because I wasn’t in difficulty at the beginning of the year. But there hasn’t been the calm needed to build the year well so far, we’ve changed quite big things on the car and I have to adapt quickly to that.”

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2026-07-02 16:45:00