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 Bull’s winning streak last time out in Singapore, Le♕clerc has been slightly off the pace of his teammate. 

The Monegasque admitted that 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 feels more comfortable in the cockpit after Frid꧂ay practice for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. 

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

“Today I changed a little bit my driving style, went with the car a bit in my di💎rection too, and it feels that the feeling is better.

“But obviously it’s only one day, so we need to keep pushing and hoꦜpefully do another step forwarඣd tomorrow.”

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

“It did what we expected it to do,” 🏅Leclerc explained. 

“It gave us a litt♍le bit of consistency, which was good to see. I don’t think there was a lot of performance 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 puttꦬing all of it together, which we did in Singapore.

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