Leclerc: Post-Sprint Qualifying Interview | 2026 British Grand Prix

Well, Charles, a little bit of a gap obviously to Lewis who's just just taking pole today. Where are you sort of missing out where he's cashing in at the moment? Well, that's what I'm looking at at the moment. Obviously, it's been, yeah, quite a bit that I realized I didn't have the ease that I had last year with last year's car. And even when I push, whenever I put things together, we speak about hundreds and Lewis is more often at 100 percent of the potential of the car, which I'm not. So I've got to work on everything, really. But I think most importantly, it's just the feeling with this car. When you don't get quite the feeling, then it's difficult to extract the lap time and to have the confidence of every Saturday is going into qualifying. In this case, it's a Friday. But anyway, and get to the to the limits of the car, which I'm struggling to just be consistent, to be at my hundred percent Q1 and Q2. I was close to it. I was quite confident for Q3, but coming Q3, I lost the car. I just don't feel the car as well as I should. Seems the power unit, the new power unit seems to be operating better than it did in Austria. Can you be quite racy with it tomorrow and fight the cars ahead? We are extremely surprised, I think, with, I mean, Lewis taking the pole today. But in general, we were expecting just a much bigger gap to the cars in front. So it's a good step forward. Yeah, I think as a team, we are very, very surprised to be that competitive on a track like this.