‘Worst start ever’ - Charles Leclerc and Ferrari’s F1 2023 pain continues at Australian GP

Charles Leclerc has branded his start to F1 2023 as his “worst ever” as his bad luck continued at the Australian Grand Prix. 
‘Worst start ever’ - Leclerc and Ferrari’s pain continues 

A collision with Aston Martin’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lance Stroll ꩲled to Leclerc spinning out on the opening l🍸ap of Sunday’s race in Melbourne for his second DNF in three races. 

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Leclerc has endured a torrid start to 2023, with an engine failure ൩forcing him into retirement at the season-opener in Bahrain and leading to a grid penalty for using too many power unit components at the second round in Saudi Arabia. 

The Monegasque’s only finish so far this season was a seventh place in Jeddah, leaving him 10th in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:championship with just six points. It marks his worst start to a campaign wඣith Ferrari. 

“Frustrated, obviously,” Leclerc summed up aft🐻er the race.  

“It’s the worst ever start ♈of the season. Only six points or eight points, I don’t know what it is in total. Frustrating.”

Despite🍎 his frustrations, Lec🍰lerc stopped short of pinning the blame for his first-lap incident on Stroll. 

‘Worst start ever’ - Leclerc and Ferrari’s pain continues 

“At turn one I took it easy and turn three I wasn’t really planning an overtake at first on Lance,” he explai🌳ned. “Then I saw that he had to brake very early because of Fernando in front that was braking early.

“So I released the brakes and put myself alongside Lance aꦦnd then Fernando had to brake even more. So Lance found himself between me and Fernando and he couldn’t turn in an𒈔d we had contact.

“I’m not pointing the finger at Lance because I think he just had no choice once Fernando slowed down ꦦthe car the second time. 

“For me it was just impossible to see whether Lance was staying behind Fe🦋rnando. He was just in between, obviously 🤪I didn’t think that he was there. So it’s just extremely frustrating.”

With 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:five-second time penalty relegating h🌺im from fourth to 12th, Ferrari failed to score points in Australia as their miserable start to the season con♊tinued. 

Ferrari remain fourth in the constructors' sꦇtandings but are a💃lready nearly 100 points behind Red Bull and 30 points adrift of third-placed Mercedes.

But team principal Frederic Vasseur insist🎃ed there are still “positives” t🅠o take from the weekend. 

"If you look at the weekend, we are disappointed with the result but the level of performance was there,” Vasseur told C4.&nb🥃sp;

“We didn’t put everything together but the pace w🐻as good [in the race]. We had to do an extra pit stop but except for this the pace waಞs okay. 

“It’s a real step forward compa🌠red to a couple of weeks ൩ago in Jeddah. Now we need to do another step in Baku.” 

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