Leclerc urges Ferrari engineers to work on 2024 car

Charles Leclerc has given his team Ferrari a hurry-up call to start working on the new 2024 car and to leave the upgrades for 2023 behind.

Leclerc struggled at the Dutch Grand Prix, where he retired from P15, but he was unable to extract any sort of performance from his car.

Carlos Sainz fared much better, but still managed only P5, just holding off the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton.

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“It’s great to hear that and obviously I can’t wait,” said Leclerc. “First, I’ve got a season to finish in 2023, but we can only go in another direction because at the moment the car is really difficult to drive. It’s just very, very difficult to be on the limit.”

“I think we are particularly struggling this weekend and even more so than what the balance would slow us down, just because we need to be so far off the limit. As soon as you get close to the limit, you just really don’t know what’s going to happen. That’s exactly what happened in my Q3 lap, so it’s a difficult situation.”