{"id":87052,"date":"2025-11-25T05:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/leclerc-furious-ferrari-embarrassing-in-las-vegas-qualy-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:31:23","slug":"leclerc-furious-ferrari-embarrassing-in-las-vegas-qualy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/leclerc-furious-ferrari-embarrassing-in-las-vegas-qualy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leclerc, furious: Ferrari &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; in Las Vegas qualy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leclerc: Calls Ferrari&#8217;s Las Vegas Qualifying &#8220;Embarrassing&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\nCharles Leclerc expressed his disappointment after the qualifying session of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, calling Ferrari&#8217;s performance &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; and pointing out the team&#8217;s persistent problems in wet conditions since his arrival.\n\nLeclerc managed to qualify in ninth position for Saturday&#8217;s race. His teammate, Lewis Hamilton, finished in last position, which seems to be Ferrari&#8217;s last chance to avoid a winless season in 2025.\n\nThis week, the team&#8217;s star drivers downplayed recent criticism from Ferrari president John Elkann, who had urged the pair to &#8220;focus on driving and talking less&#8221; and improve their performance.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>My god, embarrassing, f&#8212;ing embarrassing. F&#8212;ing hell, I don&#8217;t understand how we can be so out of rhythm&#8230; There&#8217;s no grip, zero f&#8212;ing grip.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Charles Leclerc<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Friday session began with heavy rain, forcing teams to use extreme rain tires, something uncommon in F1&#8217;s recent past.\n\nIn subsequent statements, Leclerc explained that his frustration with Ferrari&#8217;s performance in wet conditions dates back to his arrival at the team in 2019.\n\nLeclerc commented that the team has had difficulties finding grip in these types of conditions. &#8220;It&#8217;s very frustrating because it has probably been my greatest strength in the lower categories and then&#8230;&#8221;\n\n&#8220;We&#8217;re doing something wrong. I have no idea what it is, because we&#8217;ve turned the car upside down. We&#8217;ve had Lewis and, obviously, Carlos before [from] other teams that could tell us the feeling they had with the other cars. It&#8217;s extremely difficult to find grip with our car. Very, very unpredictable with our car, which makes us make a lot of mistakes. It&#8217;s not that we don&#8217;t try because as a team we&#8217;ve tried absolutely everything. For some reason, we still haven&#8217;t found our way.&#8221;\n\nHamilton, considered an expert in wet conditions, also struggled from the start, being eliminated in the first session.\n\n&#8220;The car felt great in FP3, and honestly I thought it was going to go well. Yes, I was very, very excited,&#8221; said Hamilton.\n\n&#8220;I thought we would finally have a good day, but it wasn&#8217;t like that.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leclerc: Calls Ferrari&#8217;s Las Vegas Qualifying &#8220;Embarrassing&#8221; Charles Leclerc expressed his disappointment after the qualifying session of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, calling Ferrari&#8217;s performance &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; and pointing out the team&#8217;s persistent problems in wet conditions since his arrival. Leclerc managed to qualify in ninth position for Saturday&#8217;s race. His teammate, Lewis Hamilton, finished in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[647,451,2727,10589],"class_list":{"0":"post-87052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-ferrari","9":"tag-las-vegas","10":"tag-leclerc","11":"tag-wet-conditions"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}