A 'very frustrating session' for P6 Leclerc

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Charles, that sounded like a bit of a tricky one.
We heard something about you hitting a toggle a couple of times.
How did it go on your side?
Can you talk us through it?
Yeah, very frustrating session.
I mean, first the toggle, then unfortunately when I had a good lap,
I lost half a second in the back straight for whatever reason on the second lap in SQ3.
So we'll analyse that and try to understand what has gone wrong.
Where does this leave you for the rest of the weekend?
And we also saw, of course, you tried the new rear wing in FP1 and took it off for sprint quali.
Can you talk us through that decision and your outlook for the rest of the weekend?
Yeah, I mean, it doesn't really change the picture from where we are.
I think in the race we should be relatively a bit stronger than where we were now in qualifying.
However, Mercedes-Benz seems to be still a step ahead.
In qualifying, for some reason, the Mercedes-Benz power unit finds a lot of lap time.
We don't quite find that amount of lap time just yet in qualifying,
but in the race we are closer. So I'm so hopeful we can come back tomorrow.
