Charles Leclerc said that Ferrari is having to “re🥂set its expectations” for the Spanish Grand Prix, just a week after it finished on the podium in Monaco.

Leclerc secured Ferrari’s best results of the 2025 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Formula 1 season on the streets of Monte Carlo, finishing a close second to race winner and McLaren rival 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris.

However, the Monegasqu🎶e driver expects a “back to normal” outcome in Spain this weekend, with the Barcelona track expected to expose the weaknesses of the SF-25 package.

“We got to reset a bi🧸t our expectations going into this weekend compared to a weekend like Monaco where it was a bit more positive,” he told reporters including .

“However, it doesn't change our approach. More than an extreme setu💦p, the balance that we are trying to target is very, very aggressive this year and 🤪we've got to run like that and that doesn't change now. So we are still in the same situation for this.”

Leclerc played down Ferrari’s chances in the build-up to the Mon🧜aco GP, only to be competitive at his home track straight from the off in practice.

However, the Monegasque driver said he has genuine reasons to believe that Ferrari wouldn’t ꩵfare near the front of the field in Barcelona, with one-lap pace an area where he particularly expects to struggle🐭 this weekend.

”I was 🤡𒁃genuinely surprised [in Monaco,” he said. “The previous years we always kind of expected to be strong in Monaco.

“We were not saying that 🐈we are going to dominate the weekend, but we know that we are going to be strong💟.

“This year I genuinely thought that we would be poor.&nbไsp; I think that gave us more understanding of our car and maybe the strength of this car that played a bigger part than what we thought [it would] in Monaco.

"However, I will be happily surprised again this weekend, but I don't think that 💝there's any downplay for this weekend.

“It's what I genuinely think and I think we will be back to normal, which means a situation that we have struggled with since the beginning of the season, especially in qu﷽alifying. In the race it🤪 may be better.

"We also expect a very warm weather. We've seen that with warm temperatures, McLaren tends to be very, very, very fast. So everything points towar♔ds𒐪 a more normal weekend for us.

Leclerc stressed it’s harder to say how Ferrari would perform over the rest 🌳of the season - the last under the current rule cycle - but hopes the Prancing Horse will start to close the gap to the front from this weekend's🐷 race.

“I don't wa♏nt to be thinking so much🐲 long term just because I have no visibility,” he explained.

“I know what's going to come for us in terms of smal🍌l adjustments and improvements on the car. I don't know what's 𝓰coming for the [rival] teams, so it's very difficult to predict or expect anything.

“On paper, it is going to be🔯 a tough one to go and beat McLaren in a year like this where they've been so domi🌸nant for the first part of the season.

"It's going to be very tough, but I'll give everything until the end. I hope ⭕this weekend helps us to do a step in the right direction and then🐼 hopefully with new parts as soon as possible, we can then take the lead in terms of performance on track at least and then that will help us to hope for better.

"But we cannot afford to lose too🎉 many races and starting from this weekend, I hopไe that we'll be closer to the guys in front."