Charles Leclerc delivers McLaren warning: 'I'll do absolutely everything'

Charles Leclerc has vowed to make McLaren's "life as tough as possible" in the Austrian Grand Prix after splitting them in qualifying.

Leclerc managed to get ahead of Oscar Piastri on the Spielberg grid, but was over half-a-second behind Lando Norris who achieved pole with the widest margin of the season.

Running fresh upgrades, Leclerc believes that the Scuderia's already strong race pace could prove beneficial, given it has often struggled on Saturdays over one lap compared to race distances.

It was this he is hoping will enable Ferrari to put a challenge up to McLaren as it looks to regain the second place in the constructors' it lost to Mercedes in Canada.

"The upgrades definitely helped us, but how much, it is difficult to know," Leclerc told Sky Sports F1. 

"But when you see how tight the margins are, apart from Lando, it definitely helped us to get the front row.

"We shall be proud of the work done, but we did a great job, we've worked well and I am looking forward to the race because most of the time, our race car is better than our qualifying car.

"The gap is very big, but with tyre management, we will have a strong car but whether that will be as strong as McLaren, I don't know, but I'll do absolutely everything to make the McLarens life as tough as possible."