Ferrari drivers🧔 Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel remain wary of the threat Mercedes will pose through the remainder of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix race weekend despite leading practice on Friday in Baku.

Leclerc and Vettel were the only t🍨wo drivers to set a time in FP1 as a loose manhole cover resulted in the session being abandoned, but managed to replicate their ♒one-two finish in FP2.

Leclerc finished nearly seven-tenths of a second cleᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚar of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton 🅠in third place, putting Ferrari clear as the fastest team on Friday in Baku.

Despite being pleased with the initial feeling from the Ferrari SF90 ca🍌r at the Baku City Circuit, Leclerc said he was confident Mercedes would have more pace in hand through qualifying on Saturday.

“I’m quite con🌟fident with the car, quite confident with the track, so overall it’s a good day,” 𝔍Leclerc said.

“But looking at their pace in the raceಞ run, I expect quite aꦫ lot more from them tomorrow in qualifying.

“I’m absolutely sure there ♛is more to come from Mercedes. They were very quick on the lo🎀ng runs, so there is no reason they are slow on the short runs.

“I am🔯 sure tom🗹orrow when they put everything together, it’s going to be very tight.”

Vettel echoed his teammate’s comments, saying: “Mercedes will be the ones to beat. Red Bull ꦍalso looked f🌞ast at times so I think it will be close tomorrow.

“Here, to be honest, it’s mostly about having the confidence in the car with so many big stops after high-speed braking and very little refer♏ence. It’s easy to ꦓdo mistakes over the bumps and go straight.

“Overall I think it will be decisive tomorrow to have a good feel with the car and that’s what we are working🉐 towards.”