Charles Leclerc: I don't understand what's happening.
Charles Leclerc lost four places at the start of the sprint in Qatar and finished thirteenth. After the sprint the Ferrari driver was deeply puzzled, as he did not understand why the car handled worse than the day before.
Charles Leclerc: "Definitely the car was worse today than it was yesterday. I have no idea what happened after qualifying, but the driving feel changed completely. And I don't know what that's related to.
We'll try to fix everything, but I fully agree with what Lewis said that today it was very difficult to drive the car, if not to say it was even worse than before.
On the first lap I had trouble just keeping the car on the track. I lost four or five places, and then kept making mistakes because it was very difficult to drive. I don't understand what's going on."
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