Charles Leclerc felt qualifying “slipped away” from him in Canada on Saturday as he failed to get in the fight for pole 🅷position with Ferrari teammate Sebastian Vettel, finishing a distan💝t third in the final Q3 shootout.

Leclerc entered qualifying chasing his second F1 pole after impressing in practice on Friday, but finished over six-tenths of a second off the pace as 168澳洲幸运5官⛦方开奖结果历史:Vettel swept to his maiden pole of the season.

It left Leclerc in third place, having also lost out to Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton in Q3, with the Ferrari driver explaining h🌺is struggles after the session.

“I struggled with the car, the setup maybe. I felt quite good with Q1, but then I didn't really follow the track more as the track was getting better,” Leclerc said in parc ferme after qualif🐷ying ended.

“So I need to work on that on the setup and try to find the right setup for the final Q3 time. I struggled with♑ that in Q3.

“Congratulations to Seb, he completely deserves it. Hopef♚ully we'll have a better race on my side tomorrow.”

Elaborating in the post-qualifying pressꦐ conference, Leclerc said that he feltꦏ his pace slipping away across all three stages of qualifying.

“This is a poi🌠nt I need to work on, to try and set up the car especially for Q3,” Leclerc explained.

“In Q1, the car felt quite good; Q2 a bit worse; Q3 it slipped away and I also did some mistakes. I need to understand from where it comes from to just try to anti💙cipate the track evoဣlution and how the car at its best in Q3.

“It’s my fault, and I ne🐭ed to work on that to make it 💞better.”