Charles Leclerc

Charles Leclerc suffered a devastating start to the 2023 F1 season after retiring while in third place. The Ferrari driver ended the Bahrain Grand Prix ...

The 25-year-old endured a tough season in 2022 with the Ferrari lacking the reliability to compete with Red Bull. [Charles Leclerc](/topic/charles-leclerc) suffered a devastating start to the 2023 [F1](/topic/f1) season after retiring while in third place. The Ferrari driver endured a heartbreaking start to the 2023 season

CHARLES LECLERC suffered misery at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, when he was forced to quit because of engine trouble.The Monégasque driver, 25,

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The Monegasque driver is hoping to threaten Max Verstappen for the drivers' championship title this season, so this will not be the start to the season the ...

The Ferrari driver was forced to retire from the Bahrain Grand Prix after completing 41 laps in a podium position with an electrical issue.

Last season the Ferrari driver was forced to retire three times while being in a podium position. After retiring from the race, Leclerc was understandably devastated with the result. The Ferrari driver was forced to retire from the Bahrain Grand Prix after completing 41 laps while running in a podium position with an electrical issue.

New season, but fresh troubles for Ferrari as Charles Leclerc was forced to retire from a podium position at the Bahrain GP.

Asked by PlanetF1.com if the original Energy Store is still in his pool, Leclerc replied: “I don’t know anything for now to be honest. “Red Bull seems to have found something really big during the race pace. In terms of qualy pace, 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. Asked if he was feeling confident out on track in that Ferrari before the retirement, Leclerc replied: “I mean, as confident as I can be being a second off the pace, which is not really confident to be honest. While Leclerc looked to be heading rather comfortably to a P3 finish, he stressed that he could not be feeling too comfortable when he was “a second off the pace” of Red Bull, and so now feels that Ferrari has a lot of work ahead. Leclerc then started P3 and was running there comfortably come Lap 41 of the race, that was until the Ferrari SF-23 decided that it had had enough.

Charles Leclerc admits Ferrari's race-pace may also not be "enough" to challenge Red Bull in Bahrain.