Ferrari and the unusual reason for the disqualification of Leclerc in China

Frédéric Vasseur, director of the Scuderia, told in Japan an incredible cause that helped the Monegasco SF-25 not to give the minimum weight in Shanghai.

Charles Leclerc had just rescued a handful of points in the China GP with his fifth place. Taste little for Monegasco and Ferrari after dominating the sprint with Lewis Hamilton. However, an unexpected news came a while later: Leclerc’s SF-25 did not give the minimum weight. His chassis, once the fuel was removed, reached 799 kilos, one less than the regulation marks. Result: Outside! Yes, for just 1,000 grams. The engineers of the Scuderia find in response the excessive wear of the tires for having made a single stop, as was the 2024 with George Russell in Belgium. But it was not so …

In fact, The Monegasco was just one of the many runners who went to a single detention in Shanghai. Pirelli, supplier of covers of the F1, took everyone’s tires to the Milan plant to perform an analysis. The Leclerc did not show a major wear than those of other competitors. Then, I didn’t come around. Moreover, the Monegasque ran the entire race with the broken front wing after a touch with Hamilton in the first round, but for the weight test they placed a complete wing. But there was a thinner kilite of his Ferrari. Until in Japan, Frédéric Vasseur gave an unusual fact.

A loss in the pilot’s water bottle! That container is within the total weight of the car and during the Chinese race it had a leak. “The bottle of Charles lost and left a liter. Weight loss always adds to many small factors, ”said the French Pope.

A liter of water equals approximately one kilo of weight. The most striking fact is that during Australia competition that opened the calendar, a Leclerc talk with his engineer in which he warned that he felt water in the seat was heard. “It must be water,” Bryan Bozzi replied. Obviously, in Ferrari they have a problem that needs an urgent solution.