Charles Leclerc is surprised by the difficulties

The words of Charles Leclerc

Charles Leclerc spoke after the Suzuka qualifying session, which ended in fourth place: "I honestly didn&#39t think I could do a better lap in Q3 because it was really good. I put everything I had and there wasn't a corner where I think I lost something. I didn&#39t have a slipstream and maybe that è cost us a little bit on the straightaways, but I don&#39t think the others did either.

"We lacked performance especially in sector 1, the' we were struggling so much, I don&#39t know why, compared to the McLarens and compared to Verstappen, losing three-four tenths. At that point we had to try to catch up in the other two sectors”.

"Max will do his race and we expected him to come back, but we are close to the McLarens, it will be difficult to overtake on the track with strategies, but anything is possible, and today we don’t know how things may develop. Degradation has not è been a weak point until this weekend and I hope it will not be tomorrow" either.