Charles Leclerc warns ‘Red Bull quite a bit ahead’ despite headline Ferrari pace

Charles Leclerc is adamant Red Bull are still the team to🍎 beat despite Ferrari's impressive lap times on day two in Bahrain.

Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari. Formula 1 Testing, Sakhir, Bahrain, Day One.- www.xpbimages.com, EMail:
Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari. Formula 1 Testing, Sakhir, Bahrain, Day One.- www.xpbimages.com…

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc believes Red Bull are still “quite a bit ahead” of Ferrari despite the Italian team showing outstanding pace on day two of F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain.

Leclerc topped the morning session before handing over to teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz.

Sainz lowered the overall benchmark and♛ ♔was the only driver to set a lap time below 90 seconds, albeit on the C4 tyre.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s pace on day one caught the attentio🌌n of many in the paddock, with Red Bull t🧔he heavy favourites heading into next weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix.

Assessing the current competit✨iveness of the SF-24, Leclerc said: “It feels like every winter test which means that we don’t understand a thing because for now it’s too early to say.

“We have no idea what the fuel levels are of everybody else. In terms of driveability, the car is a lot better compared to last year. Last year after the test it was very, very difficult to push it 💮into a direction because we just didn’t know the car was doing.

“We would get in a corner and we didn’t know if we would have extreme 💜oversteer or extrem🌠e understeer.

“This year the car is not like that which is a better starting point, however, my initial feeling is Red Bull remains quite a bit ahead. Yesterday they’ve done very impressive la🦩p times but that is only my own times, not looking at data for now.”

Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari SF-24. Formula 1 Testing, Sakhir, Bahrain, Day One.- www.xpbimages.com, EMail:
Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari SF-24. Formula 1 Testing, Sakhir, Bahrain, Day One.- www…

Day two in𝓡 Bahrain was curtailed by a loose dra𒈔in cover, causing the morning session to end prematurely.

Unfortunately for Leclerc, it was he who ran over it, d🐻amaging the floor on his car.

Refl🔥ecting on the incident, he said: “It’s like this. In the end it wasn’t huge. There was a bit of a hole in the floor which we had to change.

“Apart from that, I had no warning. I saw something but it was so thin I thought it was a plastic thing. We see some of them around ไthe track and we just go on them, and nothing happens, but this time it was metal. It hurt the car a little bit more.”

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