While teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz has claimed the last two pole positions on offer and ended Red Bul𒅌l’s winning streak last time out in Singapore, Leclerc has been slightly off the pace of his teammate. 

The Monegasque admitted tha♓t he has not at one with the SF-23 since Ferrari made changes to make the car’s handling more predictable. 

But Leclerc said he feels꧑ more comfortable in the cockpit after Friday practice for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. 

“Today was a little bit better,” he said. “The last two or three races, I’ve always struggled a little bit with the balance of the car.&ಞnbsp;

“Today I changed a little bit my driving style, went with the car a bit in my direction too, and i🃏t feels that the feeling is better.

“But obviously it’s only ♐one day, so we need to keep pushing and hopefully do another🍃 step forward tomorrow.”

Ferrari have brought a new floor to Japan in a bid to boost theꦗir car’s efficiency. Leclerc debuted it across both FP1 and FP2, while Sainz got to try it out on Friday afternoon. 

“ꦉIt did what we expected it to do,”ꦰ Leclerc explained. 

“It gave us a little bit of consistency, which was good to see. I don’t think there was a lot of per༺formance in it, but let✅’s wait and see.”

Leclerc ended Friday just 0.320s off Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and 🌟has taken encouragement from Ferrari🥃’s early competitiveness in Japan. 

“Obviously we keep learning about this car,” he said. “The last two or three races we learned a lot🌳 and now it’s about putting all of it together, which we did in Sing🧸apore.

“We need to do that here too. Red Bull seem to be extrem💛ely quick this weekend, but I don’t think ꦿwe are so far off.”