Ferrari are battling an inconsistent automotive that’s aggressive in qualifying however off tempo within the race, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz stated after a troublesome Miami Grand Prix.

The Italian crew’s subsequent outing is a house race at Imola and followers will probably be apprehensive after a weekend that delivered far lower than hoped for.

Sainz completed fifth and Leclerc seventh in Miami as Max Verstappen led Sergio Perez to Pink Bull’s fifth win in 5 races and fourth one-two.

“[It’s a] very comparable image to the start of the 12 months, we’re aggressive in qualifying [but] as soon as we come to race day we’re struggling like loopy,” Leclerc, who had been on pole place on the earlier race in Azerbaijan, stated.

He had completed second within the dash in Baku, elevating hopes that Ferrari had made a step ahead, and a lonely third within the Sunday race.

“The [performance] window of our automotive is so slender and everytime you get a bit bit out [of it], it has big penalties on the steadiness,” he added.

“It is from one nook to the opposite, and even in a single nook, typically you possibly can have big understeer, which matches to large oversteer, and that is clearly not superb to believe within the automotive.”

Leclerc crashed in each apply and qualifying, when he regarded aggressive, on the identical nook in Miami and stated he had struggled with the automotive bottoming at pace and in addition affected by the wind.

Sainz began third on the grid on medium tyres however a change to exhausting tyres modified every part, with the Spaniard ending 42.5 seconds behind two-time world champion Verstappen — who had lined up ninth.

“It is a very inconsistent automotive, it’s totally peaky. You are driving correctly on the restrict or on a knife edge and which means that within the race we’re paying the value,” he stated.

Crew boss Fred Vasseur recognised each had discovered the automotive exhausting to drive.

“Discovering some consistency within the automotive’s efficiency needs to be our primary precedence, particularly when it comes to tyre administration, in order that the boldness the drivers have in qualifying could be replicated within the race,” he stated.

Leclerc was Verstappen’s closest rival final season, profitable two of the primary three races earlier than the problem petered out in technique errors, unreliability and driver errors.