Charles Leclerc highlighted Ferrari’s strength over the kerbs and bumps as a key factor behind their resurgence at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix.

The Monaco weekend p🌳roved to be Leclerc and Ferrari’s stronges𝔉t of the 2025 F1 season so far.

Leclerc quali💝fied and finished in second ☂place, scoring Ferrari’s second podium of the season.

Leclerc was able to challenge 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris for the win, putting the McLaren driver undꦜer immense pressure in the closing part of the race.

Heading into the weekend, Leclerc downplayed his chances because of the SF-༺25’s inherent weakness in low-speed corners.

While Ferrari were still weaker than McLaren in this area, the Scuderia’🌼s ability to ride the kerbs and bu🌌mps worked in their favour.

Speakꦺing in the FIA press conference after the race, Leclerc was “proud” to come away with a big resu♔lt given Ferrari’s disappointing campaign so far.

“I’m never really happy with second place,” Lecl𝄹erc said. “Then if you do a step back and you lookﷺ at our season, I think this is a very positive result for the whole team.

“Especially coming here, we had very low expectations, just because our low-speed performance has been very bad all season. However, I think here, it’s a very s꧃pecific track because there are a lot of bumps, a lot of kerb riding, and I think our car is pretty good on that.

“That helped us to close the gap. So, yeah, I think we did a really goo🐼d job, and 18 points plus the 10 of Lewis are very valuable poin🔜ts for the situation we are in.

“On that, I think we should be proud. Am I over the moon for a second place? Not really, but it’s been a෴ very pos🌺itive weekend anyway.”

Leclerc reflects on Norris fight

Leclerc got close to Norris on a number of occasions, particularly when the McLaren driver was stuck behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.

Leclerc admitted that he ‘t☂hought all night’ about how🥃 to get past Norris.

“It’s very difficult. When Max at ๊the end was in front, I really believed in it unti🌃l the very end,” he added.

“I thought about it alꩵl night, the two or three places where I could try something on Lando, and I was willing to take all the risks possible to try and get that win. But,ꦕ unfortunately, these opportunities never came.

“Or at least I had maybe two or three la🥀ps where I was like, “OK, maybe I go for it,” but Lando straight away saw those and defended very well. So I basically couldn’t really🤡 go and try something. At the end, there were no opportunities for me.”