{"id":195069,"date":"2025-10-07T11:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195069\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:34:10","slug":"charles-leclerc-offers-damning-verdict-of-ferrari-f1-in-2025-i-was-expecting-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195069\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc offers damning verdict of Ferrari F1 in 2025: \u2018I was expecting more\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Leclerc<\/a> did not pull any punches when declaring that Ferrari<\/a> are now \u201csolidly the fourth quickest team\u201d in Formula One<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite the high-profile signing of Lewis Hamilton<\/a>, forming one of the sport\u2019s quickest partnerships alongside Leclerc, Ferrari have struggled immensely this season.<\/p>\n

The Scuderia are winless after 18 races, with a solitary victory coming for Hamilton in the sprint race in China,<\/a> while McLaren, Red Bull and Mercedes have all won at least two races. Leclerc has registered five podiums, while Hamilton is yet to register a top-three grand prix finish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Singapore on Sunday, both Ferrari cars struggled compared to other frontrunners. Leclerc came home sixth, with Hamilton demoted to eighth from seventh<\/a> after receiving a five-second penalty because a late brake issue resulted in numerous track limit violations.<\/p>\n

“I was expecting more pace for the rest of the race, which was not the case,\u201d Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/a> afterwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, we are now the fourth team and solidly the fourth team. Quite far behind the top three.<\/p>\n

\u201cMercedes managed to do the same step that Red Bull did five, six races ago, four races ago, whatever. And now they’ve managed to do that step.<\/p>\n

\"Charles<\/p>\n

Charles Leclerc says Ferrari are \u2018solidly the fourth quickest team\u2019 in F1 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn’t manage to do that, so it is going to be a long end of the season.”<\/p>\n

George Russell claimed his second victory of the season for Mercedes in Singapore, while Max Verstappen has won four races for Red Bull this year.<\/p>\n

Leclerc and Hamilton now have six races left to try and claim a victory this season. Ferrari\u2019s last winless campaign was in 2021, with Leclerc and Carlos Sainz the driver pairing.<\/p>\n

Leclerc is currently fifth in the drivers\u2019 championship<\/a>, 48 points ahead of Hamilton in sixth. The next race is the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas (17-19 October).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc did not pull any punches when declaring that Ferrari are now \u201csolidly the fourth quickest team\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,3025,578,930,576,577,932,1882,82],"class_list":["post-195069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-red-bull","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}