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⛦ end of his team radio, where Xavi Marcos has been for years.

The꧙ Ferrari driver claimed he did not make the cไall to reshuffle the team.

“Obviously, it's very tight in the front and everything ma༺kes a difference,” Leclerc said in Imola.

“However, the decision was made between the team and Xavi. The🐼y've had other plans in mind, I guess.

“It was communicated to me right after Miami.

“Hav🤡ing 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 Ferra♔ri.

“He's alwꦯays been my performance eng💛ineer, so he knows exactly how 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 unti⛄l now and I'm sure that it will continue that way. That will be at our 100% already from this weekend. That's all I can say.”

Although Leclerc and Marcos had worked together since his arrival at Ferrari in 2019, their relationship is notable for several public clashes via team ♍radio.

Most recently, they had a h💯eated exchange at the F1 Chinese Grand Prix.

“💃I think communic🥃ation 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 have🍰 the best picture overall.

“As I said, Iไ 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 p♒roblem in the past.”

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

Vasseur has already improved Ferrari’s strategy and has been praised for his calmer🌠 approach, not to mention the recruitment of Lewis Hamilton for 2025.

Leclerc was asked about Vasseur’s assertion that Ferrari must❀ shed their conservaꦐtive nature and take more risks to overthrow Red Bull.

“I think it's definitely a step that Fred has already made the team do thi♕s year especially, focusing on the last detail, on the last degree, on the very last fine details out of everybody in the team,” he sa🌠id.

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

“But then when everybody takes this risk, you add ev🐬erything up and it makes a big difference.

“And this is defin🐲itely 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 st🎉rong.

“So it's very important for us to extract the absolute 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 havi🦩ng forward to try and beat everybody.”

Leclerc verdict on Ferrari's Imola upgrades

Ferrari arrive at their ho𝕴me race in Italy with upgrades which they hope can close the gap t♔o Red Bull.

Those upgrades were tested by Leclerc in a filming day a🍌t Fiorano 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 th🍸e first weaknesseಌs of the car.

“Ho༒wever, it's just to make it a much better car all around. That was 🐟the main target.

“More than in F☂iorano because, again, it was for filming purpos൩es. It's not like we have tested anything special.

“It was mostly on the simulator where we could see the first dataꦯ 𒊎and feel the first few things. It was small steps in the right direction.

“Now it's all to be seen whether in reality we find the gains that we have seen on the simula🐷tor, which I hope we do.”

Ferrari struggled at Imola last year but, this weekend with rain expected,🌸 Leclerc is optimist﷽ic.

“I thin𒊎k last year where we were struggling the most was with the win🍷d sensitivity,” he said.

“So from where the wind will come f🃏rom it will affect 🌟our car a lot more than others.

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

“This is w🅘hy 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 plus.

“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 see🧸n is mostly the wet driving that we haven't had enough yet to judge.”

Ferrari were close to Max Verstappen’s Red Bull in Miami, but not 🐼in China.

“I think i✅t was more down to the track characteristics,” Leclerc explained.

“I think in China as well, we were quite in a good place with ℱthe 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 ꦐmuch time, especially after qualifying.

“I thi💟nk there was three or four tenths in the first sector only. Which after that, if you look sec✱ond and third sector, we were actually pretty quick.

“But that was too late to recover what we lost in the first sector. So I think the na﷽ture of Shanghai for some reason wasn't very nice to our car.

“And in Miami, there weren't those off corners where the car for some🐷 reason wouldn't work.”