Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has declared that he \u201cneeds more info\u201d about the intermittent engine issue he suffered during the recent Azerbaijan Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
It comes after Fred Vasseur, the Ferrari team principal, vowed that the team will \u201cinvestigate\u201d the cause of the problem.<\/p>\n
Ferrari to investigate cause of Charles Leclerc engine problem<\/p>\n
Leclerc arrived in Baku having set pole position for the previous four editions of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but his weekend failed to hit the heights of recent years.<\/p>\n
The Ferrari driver crashed out of qualifying before coming home a disappointing ninth, having been embroiled in a team orders drama with teammate Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Leclerc agreed to swap positions in the closing stages to allow his teammate to attack the cars ahead \u2013 Lando Norris, Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson \u2013 on fresher tyres, but was left frustrated when Hamilton failed to return the place before the chequered flag.<\/p>\n
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\ud83d\udc49\u00a0F1 2025: Head-to-head qualifying statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49\u00a0F1 2025: Head-to-head race statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n Despite indicating that Ferrari\u2019s \u201crules were not respected\u201d by Hamilton, Leclerc maintained in the aftermath of the race that he did not \u201ccare\u201d about missing out on eighth place after a disappointing weekend in general.<\/p>\n As revealed by PlanetF1.com last week<\/a>, however, he was heard describing the botched swap as \u201cstupid\u201d and \u201cnot fair\u201d over team radio at the end of the race.<\/p>\n Leclerc also revealed that he had to contend with an intermittent engine problem in the early stages in Baku with the power available to him changing from one lap to the next.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cUnfortunately, I had a quite big power unit issue for 10 laps in the first stint and we don\u2019t really know what is the reason for that yet, because it kind of came back from one lap to the other.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know what happened, so I need more info about that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not like it\u2019s been there for the whole race \u2013 I was fine towards the end.<\/p>\n \u201cBut in the phase where I think we probably had the chance to actually overtake cars, I was just stuck in DRS [trains] and very slow down the straight, so I couldn\u2019t do much in that first phase after that.<\/p>\n \u201cI had full power [for] the second part of the race and it still wasn\u2019t enough to get past, so it was a very frustrating race.\u201d<\/p>\n More on Charles Leclerc and Ferrari from PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49 Charles Leclerc news<\/a><\/p>\n