Despite Belgian GP Pole, Charles Leclerc Sends Crucial Warning About Ferrari Performance

Rain and Spa Francorchamps is a love-hate relationship we love to see. Do you know another love-hate relationship of the F1 circus? It is Charles Leclerc‘s poles and the subsequent conversion rate. Max Verstappen is set to take a 10-place grid penalty for the Belgian GP, meaning his fastest time allows him to start P11 tomorrow. Charles Leclerc gained the most of this self-inflicted penalty (at least on Saturday) as he starts on the pole tomorrow. But he is not too optimistic.

Mr. Saturday, Leclerc, is on the pole for only the second time this year, as he pipped Perez by 0.011s. Lewis Hamilton also narrowly missed out by less than one-tenth and will start third tomorrow. But despite the odds in his favor and the biggest threat being 10 places behind him, Leclerc isn’t too ecstatic. He credited the rain for his outstanding qualifying.

Talking about his qualifying session, Leclerc said, “I definitely did not expect that. With tricky conditions, we could do something above our expectations. Without this rain, P5 was the position we were fighting for. The rain helped us. I’m not gonna complain. I’m very happy with the lap.”

This emotion of despair wasn’t making its debut, as Leclerc hadn’t felt too great even yesterday.

Charles Leclerc wasn’t a very happy man on Friday either