Charles Leclerc is hopeful Ferrari will present it’s got on high of the issues which have dogged it in current races when it introduces an improve for its SF-24 this weekend.
Ferrari is bringing the following step for its automobile in time for its house occasion at Monza. The staff encountered issues with the brand new flooring it launched in its earlier house spherical at Imola, and spent a number of rounds centered on fixing them, however Leclerc believes they’re making progress now.
“We’ve had three or 4 races, 4 races in the past, the place we had been experimenting quite a bit to try to perceive what had been the elemental problems with our automobile for the event, medium-term,” Leclerc defined. “We’ve bought an improve coming very quickly.
“Now I can say usually because Fred [Vasseur, team principal] mentioned it, so it will likely be in Monza. And that, I hope, will assist us and assist us shut the hole.”
Leclerc completed third for the second race in a row at Zandvoort final weekend, which gave him some encouragement about Ferrari’s competitiveness.
“Till the upgrades, I at all times mentioned that the precedence for us was simply to do a harm limitation,” he mentioned after Sunday’s race. “Right now, we had been concentrating on P6. Realistically, I feel on paper, that’s what we had been combating for.
“Nonetheless, after three, 4 laps, the tempo was there. And we [finished] P3, which is an efficient shock once more. Good factors. Nonetheless, now I simply hope that the improve helps us to do a step ahead.”
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He admitted he was stunned by the extent of the staff’s features within the race after qualifying nearly a second off pole-winner Lando Norris.
“I feel one of the best query can also be to grasp why we had been 9 tenths off yesterday and all of the sudden fairly sturdy at present,” mentioned Leclerc. “The automobile is strictly the identical.
“Yesterday, we’ve been struggling like loopy. Right now, we had been sturdy. And these are the type of issues that we’ve started working on.
“I feel as a lot as we analyse each unhealthy shock we’ve throughout a season, we additionally want to grasp once we do one thing good. For now, I don’t suppose as a staff we’ve the reason. So it’s an excellent outcome. I’m actually completely happy to be standing on the rostrum, I feel it’s a very good shock. Nonetheless, we’ve bought to grasp to be able to carry out extra typically at our greatest.”
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