If things dry up in time for the AustiranGP sprint race later today, Charles_Leclerc hopes to exploit a new rule to take the fight to Max33Verstappen ⬇️
and Red Bull being closely matched on one-lap speed this weekend has raised hopes of a possible race-long battle between them in the sprint event – if Leclerc and Verstappen repeat their qualifying result in the shootout session.
“There's this new rule that after the first lap now we can activate DRS during the sprint, if I'm not wrong, which obviously helps us a little bit as with DRS here you can stay within one second a little bit easier,” he said after qualifying second for the GP.
“Because we are talking about 20-something laps, which is more or less the stint length that you do on a normal race, so deg, race pace still plays a massive part in that. “Actually, I think Austria last year was their only, or the last weak race let's say, if we put it that way. Since then they've been amazing in the race.Leclerc also said that Ferrari adding “a bit more front wing for the last run in Q3” backfired, when considering his 0.048s gap to Verstappen at the end of that session.“[I was] very close to pole position, which is a good sign. But we all know that our weakness is the race.
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