Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says Ferrari’s straight-line speed adꦿvantage during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix was “just ridiculous”.

🙈Ferrari dominated qualifying to land a front-r🦩ow lockout at Spa, with Charles Leclerc storming to a crushing pole position with a time that was 0.748s faster than teammate Sebastian Vettel.

Mercedes’ drivers had been losing time on the straights throughout the weekend and that theme carried into qualifying, with💦 Lewis Hamilton leading an all-Mercedes second-row, some seven-tenths down on Leclerc.

“We knew t♛hat it was going to be difficult and probab༒ly third and fourth was what we expected as the optimum result,” Wolff told Sky Sports.

“I think it co🍨uld have been second, but if we have a deficit anyway with our package, that is enormous and the power is just ridiculous on Ferrari on these kinds of tracks.

“You have got to do everything right and🐽 we didn’t.”

Hamilton and teammate𝓡 Valtteri Bottas nearly collided during their warm-up laps prior to their flying laps in Q3, with Wolff saying t▨he incident made his side “look like an idiot”.

“Of course we know that the tow is imp𝔍ortant but today we tripped over our own feet,🦋” he explained.

“You want to do it extr❀a perf♛ect and then you are looking like an idiot and this is what happened twice today.

“I think tಞhere is every♑thing to play for tomorrow,” he added.

“We have a strong race car and we know th𝓡at they have suffered more in the races but then the cold probably gives them an advantage.

“Straight-lin♌e speed they haven’t got available like they have in qualifying, so it’s a totally different ballgame today but I’m still upset about the Saturday.”