Even clearer where Ferrari's F1 2023 car is lacking after set-up experiments at Dutch GP, says Charles Leclerc

Ferrari dedicated much of Friday’s practice running at Zandvoort to trialing new s✨et-ups in a bid to get on top of the weaknesses of their 2023 challenger.
Leclerc endured a challenging weekend in the Netherlands and suওffered a heavy crash in qualifying, before floor damage 𒉰curtailed his Sunday and forced him into retirement.
Asked what lessons Ferrari took away from Zandvoort, Leclerc replied: “Many. Not really in the race as my front wing went under the floor and ba🔯sically broke everything, so I had very little grip🎶.
“For the rest of the weekend we tri🦄ed quite a few things, especially in FP1,✱ trying to put the car in very different places in terms of set-up to see how it will react and I think we have some confirmation of what we expected.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do now to find solutions to our problems and the weakness of the car. It’s even clearer to before where we are lacking at the momℱent.”
After his qualifying crash, Leclerc said he has “zero idea” how his Ferrari car will behave through the corners. The Monegasque reiterated that unpredictabiliꦿty remains the SF-23’s biggest weakness.
“Yes t꧑he unpredict🧸ability, especially on tracks where we have a bit more downforce, it becomes really tricky to drive,” he explained.
"We’ve got big changes of balance through the same corner and as a driver, it’﷽s very difficult to go into a corner and n🍌ot really know what balance you are going to get.
“So𓃲 that’s wher🌃e we need to work on at the moment.”

Lecꦉlerc is hoping for a more competitive weekend at Ferrari’s home race at Monza this weekend.
ꦇ“Let’s say it’s not exactly like Spa but the track characteristics are closer to the ones of Spa than Zandvoort and Budapest,” he saꦯid.
♔“So we should be 💜a bit more competitive here. Whether it will be enough or not to fight for the podium, I don't know.
“But I really h🅘ope so. We'll do everything for it, for sure.”

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