Former technical director finds no explanation: ‘Something unusual going on at Ferrari’
Charles Leclerc managed to put his Ferrari on pole position in Hungary. After leading for a while, he quickly fell back due to a lack of speed. On the other hand, Lewis Hamilton is struggling massively with his Ferrari. According to Gary Anderson, there is something peculiar going on at the Italian team.
Charles Leclerc surprisingly managed to put his Ferrari in pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix. During the first part of the race, he could keep up the pace and lead the race, but then he quickly fell back and ultimately finished in fourth place.
Anderson asserts that there is something strange going on at Ferrari
According to Gary Anderson, former technical director at Jordan and car designer at Jaguar, there is something odd happening at Ferrari.
"What is odd is that if the track gets slower for one team, it is normally the case for all the teams. There is obviously something unusual going on at Ferrari, given how well Leclerc performed in the first part of the race, before dropping away from contention."
"It is almost impossible to know what is holding them back, and the same goes for when they are quick," the technician wrote in his analysis for The Telegraph.
"Something obviously happened with the car, and it is not about engine mode or tyre pressure. It is clearly a bit borderline and might be the same thing that has been hurting Hamilton."
"Leclerc said it was an unspecified chassis problem after the race. Something can break or stop working correctly on a car, yes, but that happens once in a blue moon. It’s impossible to know what this was without further information from Ferrari," Anderson concluded.
George Russell suggested after the Hungarian Grand Prix that Ferrari was on the edge of illegality, which forced the team to adjust the settings so as not to finish with a too thin floor. According to Anderson, this theory can be dismissed.
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