168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc has insisted that Ferrari made the decision to replace his race engineer.

Leclerc enters this weekend’s F1 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix with Bryan Bozzi on the other en🌱d of his team radio, where Xavi Marcos has been for📖 years.

The Ferrari driver claimed he🎉 did not maꦅke the call to reshuffle the team.

“Obvio﷽usly, it's very tight in the front and everything makes a difference,” Leclerc said in Imola.

“Howe🐼ver, the decision was made between the team and Xavi. They've had ot🌳her plans in mind, I guess.

“It was communicated to me right after Miami.

“Having said that, Bryan, that will 🐈take the role of Xavi from now onwards, is a person I have been working with since I arrived in Ferrari.

“He's always been my performance engineer, so he kn꧑ows exactly h🐽ow everything works.

“It's not like I'm starting from zero and that it's going to be a🍰 complete adaptation. It's been super smooth until now and I'm sure that it will continue that way. That will be at our 10ಞ0% already from this weekend. That's all I can say.”

Although Leclerc and Marcos had worked together since his arrival at Ferrari in 2✨019, their relationship is notab𝕴le for several public clashes via team radio.

Most recently, they had a heated exchange at the F1 Chinese G🧸rand Prix.

“I think communication has always been ꦿa big thing since we worked with Xavi,” 🌠Leclerc said.

“We always try and communicate as much as possible. This is the way I work to try and haveဣ the best pictureꦆ overall.

“As I said, I think we'll focus on having the smoothest transition possible and then we'll focus on the things that matter 💧to us. I don't think it was a particular problem in the past.”

The🔯 change, decided by the team itself, could be regarded as th𒁃e latest tweak made by team principal Fred Vasseur.

Vasseur has already improved Ferra𓆉ri’s strategy and has been praised for his calmer approach, not to mention the recruitmen༒t of Lewis Hamilton for 2025.

Leclerc was asked about Vasseur’s as🌱sertion that Ferrari must shed their conservative nature and take m𝐆ore risks to overthrow Red Bull.

“I think it's definiꦬtely a step that Fred has already made the team do this year especially, focusing on the last de♊tail, on the last degree, on the very last fine details out of everybody in the team,” he said.

“And🌄 when you put everything together, so if 🎃you look only at one detail, you're like, okay, why take the risk?

“But then when everybody takes 𝔉this risk, you add everything up and it makes a big difference.

“And this is definitely the approach that we need to take if we want to go and beat Red Bull, because at the moment they are🐎 extremely strong.

“As we've seen in the first part of the season, not only🧔 Red Bull, McLaren are very strong.

“So it's very impoℱrtant for us to extract the abꦰsolute maximum of the car. And I think this is the mentality that we've had since the beginning of the season and that we'll continue having forward to try and beat everybody.”

Leclerc verdict on Ferrari's Imola upgrades

Ferrari arrive at their home race in Italy with upgrades which they hope can 😼close the gap to Red Bull.

Those upgrades were tested by Leclerc inಞ a filming day at Fio𝄹rano last week.

“The♋ target overall, obviously, the upgrades are done in a way that they've been projected and thought about quite a long time ago,” Leclerc said.

“It's not like we could react to the first🅘 weaknesses of the car.

“However, it's just to make it a much better c🎐ar all around. That was the main target.

“More than in Fiorano because, again, it was for filming purposes. It's not like we ꧋have tested anything s🥂pecial.

“It was mostly on the simulator where we could see the first data and feel the first few things. It was small steps in t🍰he right direction.

“Now it's all to be seen🎐 whether in reality we find the gain♍s that we have seen on the simulator, which I hope we do.”

Ferrari struggle🐎d at Imola la💟st year but, this weekend with rain expected, Leclerc is optimistic.

“I think last year where we were stru♒ggling the most was with the wind sensi🍌tivity,” he said.

“So from where the wind will comဣe from it will affect our car a lot more than others.

“This yℱear we have tackled that quite well and the car is a lot more predictable, is a lot better in all♔ conditions.

“This is why I think whatever tracks we have been to, whatever conditions there were in terms of wind direction, wind intensity, our performance was very similar, which is a p🍰lus.

“Last year was a lot more up and down, so we have worked on that. It got a lot better. The ones that remain to be seen is mostly the wet driving that ꦓwe haven't had enough yet to judge.”

Ferrarไi were close to Max Verstappe🉐n’s Red Bull in Miami, but not in China.

“I think it was more down to the ꦑtrack characteristics,” Leclerc explained.

“I think in China as well, we were quite in a good place with the setup and꧃ we maximised the potential of the car.

“The nature of some corners in China made us struggle a 🅷lot more. We were losing way too much time, especially after qualifying.

“I think there was three or four tenths in the firs🀅t sector only. Which after that, if you look second and third sector, we were ac﷽tually pretty quick.

“But that was too late to recover what we lost in the fi🍌rst sector. So I think the nature of Shanghai for some reason wasn't very nice to our car.

♒“And in Miami, there weren't thos♑e off corners where the car for some reason wouldn't work.”