Charles Leclerc makes brutal Ferrari admission: 'I didn't do the job'

Charles Leclerc has conceded he did not deliver during the Canadian Grand Prix, where he finished in fifth. The Monegasque driver underwhelmed at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, with his performance over the weekend heavily affected by a costly, day-ending crash 15 minutes into the first free practice session. Because it necessitated a chassis change, he was forced to sit out FP2 entirely. In qualifying, his final push lap in Q3 was impacted by Isack Hadjar running close ahead, leaving him to line up eighth on the grid. Running an off-set strategy during the grand prix, which was a cause of tension within the team , further concealed the underlying pace of his SF-25. However, the 27-year-old did not believe after the race he would have been in contention had it not been for his messy Friday and Saturday in Montreal. "I don't really want to speak with ifs ," the eight-time grand prix winner told media including RacingNews365 . "At the end of the day, I didn't put everything together." Leclerc did not feel Ferrari had the pace to match Mercedes or Red Bull, who finished first and third, and second, respectively. Instead, he argued the Scuderia was more "on the back foot" in Canada, as were constructors' championship leaders McLaren. "I think Mercedes probably had the upper hand this weekend," he said. "Red Bull is consistently there.  "McLaren was a little bit more on the back foot. I think we were there with them. "Then where we would have ended up, I don't know." Nonetheless, he maintained his poor showing across the weekend was ultimately responsible for his disappointing result. He concluded: "But at the end of the day, I didn't do the job."