'No power, no power!' Ferrari's Charles Leclerc explains F1 Bahrain GP retirement
Leclerc stopped on track on Lap 41 of Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix after his engine suddenly cut out - a ꩵworrying return for reliability issues which blighted 2022 for Ferrari.
The Monegasque reported he had "no power" as he ground to a halt after running in third place behind the Red Bull du🍸o of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.&nbs🤪p;
A Fer⛎rari spokesperson said "weꦕ seem to have lost the engine on Charles' car".
It marks a huge setback to Leclerc after Ferrar😼i had already been forced to take on a new energy store before the first race of the season.
Leclerc has already used up 50 percent of his energy store allocation for the y𒈔ear and could be se༺t for further engine headaches down the line, given his failure in Bahrain.
“I couldn’t do anythiܫng after that,” he said after revﷺealing there was "zero" warning of his engine shutdown.
“We need to keep working because obviously first race and first reliability problems, s💜o not good.”
Asked about his race before retiring, he said: "I mean, as confident as I can be being a second off the🍌 pace, which is not re🌳ally confident to be honest.
“Red Bull seems to have found something really big during the race pace. In terms of qualy pace, they are actually pretty similar to us or at least we managed to extract ꦜthe lap time yesterda♚y, but then we come to the race and we are a second every lap off the pace, which is huge.
“Bahrain is also a very spec🍬ific track, so I hope that t🐲he picture can change a little bit from the next race, but we cannot rely on that, we need to work and find something.
“So, we really need to work ꦬinto that, plus the relia༒bility.”
Max Verstappen won the first race of the season.
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