Leclerc didn't believe Ferrari Alfa Romeo warning

Charles Leclerc has revealed he didn't believe Ferrari'spre-Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying simulations predicting AlfaRomeo's strong pace. The Monégasque will start the race sixth afterfailing to outpace Zhou Guanyu, who secured his career-best F1result with fifth. Ferrari struggled for pace across the sessionwith Carlos Sainz falling out in Q2 and asked how he felt afterqualifying, Leclerc told media including RacingNews365 : "Notgreat, to be honest. "I was really happy with my lap and you lookat the board and you're P6. "Yes, the margins are fine and veryclose until P4, but then the top three are quite a lot ahead, sowe've got a lot of work to do." Leclerc: Several teams ahead ofFerrari "McLaren is showing that they've done a general big stepforward," added Leclerc. "On a track like this, compared toSilverstone, it's two completely different characteristics and theyare [still] very quick, so we need to do a step forward. "McLaren,Mercedes, Red Bull now seem to be quite consistently ahead, atleast at the last few races, and we need to work, otherwise we arejust losing more and more points every weekend, so we need to do abig push." Zhou's teammate Valtteri Bottas is also well up inseventh place on the grid, and revealing his surprise, Leclercsaid: "[They] were very strong. The team [Ferrari] showed me thesimulations of what we think they will be like, and honestly, theywere all correct. "It's very difficult to understand. I did notexpect to have an Alfa Romeo in front of me for the race. "I don'tthink they had any particularly big upgrades for this weekend, butfrom one weekend to another, everybody's changing and strugglingone weekend and fast the other, so it's very difficult tounderstand."