Charles Leclerc says AzerbaijanGP pole position comes as a “really good surprise”, after initially only targeting Aston Martin and Mercedes 🎯 Full F1 story ⬇️
Leclerc said the pre-weekend team target had been to beat Aston Martin and, leaving him shocked to have scored his first pole since Singapore in 2022 and to have ended the Red Bull qualifying streak in the early part of this season.
“I'm surprised,” he said. “We came into the weekend thinking that it will be a great weekend if we are in front of Aston and Mercedes in qualifying and, at the end, we are on pole, so it's a really good surprise.” However, Leclerc did lower expectations for the full grand prix on Sunday as he acknowledged that the race pace of the RB19 was still likely to trump that of his SF-23 machine.
He continued: “We must not forget that our race car is maybe still behind the Red Bulls, so it's going to be difficult to keep the lead but that's the target and really, really happy with the lap.“It's a very challenging weekend overall for us drivers because very little time to practice [with the changes to the sprint race event timetable].
“We only had one practice and then you need to be straight on it, but the feeling was good since the start so really, really happy.”
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