Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz’s first impressions of Ferrari F1 upgrade package
Leclerc and teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz had their first taste of Ferrari’s upgrade package, comprising revised sidepo🍃ds and floor, as the Italian spent the openingಞ day of running evaluating their new parts.
Leclerc completed a back-to-back by running Ferrari’s old sidepods in FP1, before finishing 0.339s off the pace of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen in sixth as he tried out the new design.
The Monegasque revealed the upgrades “f🍬elt pretty good” but🍌 admitted Ferrari still have plenty of work to do to “optimise” the package.
“We had a few new parts on the car and I think it’s a great track to test these new upgrades,🎶” Leclerc said.
“The feeling is quite okay. We still have a lot of wor🐠k to do in order to optimise the package, but it felt pretty good.”
Leclerc added: “We are step-by-step trying to push more the car in plac▨es that we haven’t yet, because we didn’t have the time.
“Just the𓂃 normal process of having a new part and slowing going in the direction more.” 🌠;
Home hero Sainz, who debuted the package in the morning session, echoed Leclerc’s early 🦋assessme🦩nt that the car “feels good”.
“We’ve tested the new package but it’s 𒉰impossible to compa✅re. Only Charles had a proper back-to-back,” the Spaniard said.
“For me it was put [on] and run and we just tuned the carꦕ to adapt it to the balance that we have.”
Asked whether he thinks Ferrari will be in the fight for pole, Leclerc replied: “It’s very difficult to answer t🔯hat question because it’s closer than ever, apart from Red Bull who are in a league of the💮ir own with the car, especially in race-pace.
“Everyone else seems t𝓀o be more or less there. The one that will be in front will be the one that does the perfect lap, so it will be very close.”
Sainz also predicted a competitive qualifying in Barcelona, saying: “It’s going to be t💃ight. The field today was particularly tight.
“Obviously we don’t know fuel loads and engine modes but there were a few caꦐrs from the midfield joining the top teams and mixing it up with us. I expect to be💎 the same as in Monaco.
“It just shows 😼the field is closing up and it’s going to be a good🦩 challenge in quali.”
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