The Monegasque made it two pole positions in as many weekends at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriquez as he edged out Ferrari teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz by 0.067s, while Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen was 0.097s adrift in third. 

But Leclerc, who joked people would not believe him after making it two straight poles, was left shocked after Ferrari’s unexpected 💫pace seemingly came out of nowhere. 

“I did not expect✅ to be on pole today,” Leclerc said.&n꧃bsp;

“We thought we 💫were lacking quite a bit after FP3. But for some reason once we put everything together it went well and on the new tyres we gained a lot. 

"I'm al🅷ready focusing on tomorrow's race because we have had many pole positions but we need t🔜o convert it into pole position and it's going to be very difficult.

"We will just focus on ourselves. We had a pretty good pace all weekend. I'm not sure if it's enough to🃏 challeng🎃e for the win but we will try everything in our hands to get it.”

Ferrari’s recent strong starts leave Leclerc confident about his chances of maintaining the𓄧 lead on the lon♛g run down to Turn 1. 

“It’s a very difficult race here,” he explained. “Everything can happen, especially with the cooling, where whichever car behind can do a bit ไmore management. 

"So it can play a bit in our favour but for that we need to be first and starting first here is alwaysꦍ tricky to keep that position until the 🌼first corner. 

“But we’ve had pretty good starts ꦕthis year, so I’m confident I🍰 can keep that first place into Turn 1, and then we will try and do our best race.” 

However, Leclerc pinpointed Verstappen as being the biggest threat to his hop🌳eꦅs of claiming a first win of the season. 

“I mean, this year, clearly Max has been extremely strong on the race-pace. So at the momen𝄹t it’s Max [who is the favourite],” Leclerc added.&nb🅠sp;

“We still have a lot of work to do as a team to match themܫ with our race pace.”