{"id":945680,"date":"2026-10-25T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945680\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:12:11","slug":"charles-leclerc-unleashes-sweary-ferrari-rant-after-missing-us-gp-front-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945680\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc unleashes sweary Ferrari rant after missing US GP front row"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Leclerc<\/a> launched into a sweary rant after Ferrari<\/a> missed out on the front row grid position in qualifying for the United States Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Although Ferrari claimed the practice hat-trick at the Circuit of the Americas, when it came to qualifying, Leclerc nor Lewis Hamilton lost out to Kimi Antonelli and the Red Bull teammates.<\/p>\n

Charles Leclerc explains Ferrari\u2019s tyre struggles after US GP qualifying<\/p>\n

Heading into the penultimate triple-header of the F1 2026 championship, Ferrari brought several new parts<\/a> to the circuit.<\/p>\n

The package focuses exclusively on aerodynamic refinements, featuring a revised sidepod profile, a reworked floor edge board, a modified diffuser, and underbody floor revisions.<\/p>\n

Ferrari came out of the blocks firing, with Leclerc topping the timesheets in Friday\u2019s two practices before Hamilton wrapped up the practice hat-trick with a P1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Scuderia went into qualifying chasing a front row grid slot, potentially even its first Grand Prix pole position of the championship.<\/p>\n

Ferrari came up short.<\/p>\n

While championship leader Antonelli claimed pole position with a 1:34.035, 0.179s ahead of Verstappen, Leclerc had to settle for fourth place with Hamilton in P5.<\/p>\n

Leclerc let rip in an untelevised rant to Ferrari.<\/p>\n

\u201cToo much! F***! Too much front wing,\u201d he ranted according to scuderiafans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tyres, for f*** sake, such a tiny window. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s s***! It\u2019s absolutely awful. Awful. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable. Crazy. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even want to know [the gaps]. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe last sector was horrible, with rear locking, rear limited.\u201d<\/p>\n

More from the United States Grand Prix<\/p>\n

Winners and losers from the 2026 United States Grand Prix Qualifying<\/a><\/p>\n

Kimi Antonelli has pole, but Max Verstappen has three key advantages for Austin<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking with the media in the bull pen after qualifying, Leclerc was asked if he was okay.<\/p>\n

He replied with a rueful smile: \u201cWell, not amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Monegasque driver, who has managed one race win this season with his victory at the British Grand Prix, explained that Ferrari was struggling to find the sweet spot with the Pirelli tyres.<\/p>\n

If the track temperature changes even just a few degrees, it creates a \u201chuge\u201d difference in the handling of the SF-26.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very disappointing because I think there are some weekends where we\u2019ve been strong in free practices, but then coming quali, it\u2019s very clear that the others are just having a lot more in the straights, and it\u2019s very difficult for us to match that,\u201d Leclerc said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I felt like today, it\u2019s a qualifying where we had the potential in the car. But the car also includes tyres. And in Q3, unfortunately, we were not in the right place.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like one or two degrees less in Q3, and for me, it was a huge difference. I was sliding quite a lot already on the out-lap, and that made it very difficult.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is quite frustrating. But yeah, there are reasons for it, and so at the same time, I think we just need to work harder and try and understand very well those tyres even better than what we are doing now,.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe others I think normally have a bit more \u2013 it\u2019s a bit easier for them to extract the lap time in Q3 than it is for us. And as soon as we are a tiny bit outside the window, we pay a lot the price. So this is something that we need to look into.\u201d<\/p>\n

That Leclerc missed out on a front-row grid slot by just 0.05 seconds to Verstappen only added to his frustration.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, and even more when I look at my Q2 lap, which was 0.1, which I think was only maybe a tenth behind Kimi, so I was expecting to do another step in Q3, which unfortunately never came.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read next: Lewis Hamilton jokes Kimi Antonelli should \u2018slow down\u2019 as F1 title looms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc launched into a sweary rant after Ferrari missed out on the front row grid position in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,3025,578,930,576,577,1613,44,82,106694],"class_list":["post-945680","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-home-page","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-united-states-grand-prix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945680","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=945680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}