“When we get out of the garage with front tyres that are too cold, then you arrive in the first corner and you lock up, so I don’t know what’s gone on.
“I don’t have the answer yet, the team don’t have the answer yet, but we need to look into it because we paid the price today.”
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Pushed on whether it is a concern for the race, with 62 gruelling laps ahead of the drivers on Sunday night, Leclerc signed off: “No, not a concern, but we’ve got to find it.”
Sainz, meanwhile, was left to reflect on a sizeable crash that came shortly after he had backed off to let rival cars, including McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, overtake him.
“A very strange one,” he said. “I clearly underestimated, or overestimated in this case, the grip that I would get from a very cold tyre. I had to do a lot of back off in the last sector to let some cars by.
