Charles Leclerc left ‘especially irate’ with one technical decision Ferrari have made this season

Ferrari went into the season hoping to go one better than last season and win their first constructors’ championship since 2008.

With Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton at the wheel, it was hard to imagine anyone would be able to beat Ferrari this season if they continued on the same trajectory as how last year ended.

Leclerc outscored Max Verstappen and Lando Norris during the final races of 2024, and Ferrari’s double podium in Abu Dhabi was nearly enough to secure a remarkable constructors’ championship win.

Unfortunately, the reality of this season couldn’t have been further from that particular dream for team principal Fred Vasseur.

Leclerc secured Ferrari’s first podium finish in Saudi Arabia, while Hamilton has a Sprint Race win and third place under his belt in China and Miami respectively.

Unfortunately, these have been the high points in a very underwhelming campaign for the Scuderia.

Leclerc was concerned about Ferrari’s car in pre-season and those fears have yet to be resolved a quarter of the way through the 2025 campaign.

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Charles Leclerc ‘especially irate’ with Ferrari’s 2025 floor update

A report from The Race has shared more details about Ferrari’s difficulties after a disastrous qualifying for the team.

Hamilton was frustrated with Ferrari’s tyre strategy after he was eliminated in Q2 with an untouched set of soft tyres waiting for him in the garage.

Leclerc was less than a tenth faster than his teammate, and while that was enough to reach Q3, he’ll start P8, behind both Williams drivers.

The report from The Race suggests that the Scuderia’s updates at this stage have ‘missed the mark’, and Leclerc is ‘especially irate’ with the floor Ferrari installed at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

It’s said that the new floor hasn’t lifted ‘the performance ceiling of the car’ in the way Leclerc expected, and it’s clear something is going wrong between Sprint Races and qualifying for Ferrari given the step backwards they’ve taken at both events this season.

Hamilton was disqualified for excessive plank wear in China, and while Leclerc has dismissed claims that ride height is Ferrari’s issue, it appears to be an uncanny coincidence that Ferrari have to figure out.

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Charles Leclerc says ‘something strange’ is happening with Ferrari’s car at the Miami Grand Prix

The Monegasque driver was speaking to the gathered media after qualifying and when asked to try and explain what was going wrong, he suggested, “We’ve got to analyse, there was something strange on our side.

“I had to change massively the car, the tools and everything in order to have kind of a balance I liked, but I went… yeah, it was very different.

“So we’ve got to look into it to understand what happened there.”

Leclerc didn’t take part in the Sprint Race after crashing on the way to the grid, and when asked if his rebuilt Ferrari might have caused his lack of pace during qualifying, he continued, “I don’t want to say that for now.

“The mechanics have done an incredible job putting everything on, and to be honest, we’ve changed a few things on the car as well in terms of set-up.

“It’s unclear to me whether the set-up changes had a much bigger impact than what I thought, or whether there’s something off. But yeah, this will look tonight.”

Ferrari have some major issues to resolve and they need to do it quickly before this season becomes a complete write-off.

There are no guarantees over which team is going to be at the top of the pecking order in 2026 and beyond, but it might end up being Hamilton and Leclerc’s best bet to challenge for the drivers’ championship at this stage.