168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc believes Ferrari’s recent F1 upgrade is working as intended desp𒀰ite a 0.3s gap to pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix.

Leclerc could only manage fifth on the grid for Sunday’s race at 💮the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

The Monegasque driver was beaten by the two Mercedes drivers, while there was a more significant gap to pole-sitter 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, who narrowly missed out on top spot.

Ferrari had introduced a❀ significant upgrade for this weekend but never looked like they were capable of truly challenging for pole position.

Despite this, Leclerc thinks the re✅cent package is “a good sဣtep forward”.

“No, it's sure that the upgrade that we brought is doing what it's supposed to do and it's a good step ♛forward,” Leclerc said🔯.

“However, it's always a relativ⭕e sport and other teams have also brought upgrades and so then it all depends how much of a step forward everybody i🧔s doing.

“For sure there's more optimisat༒ion with this new package that we can do, but I wouldn't take that as an excuse. I think we are just lacking a little bit of pace this weekend.”

Ferrari suffered their worst we♛ekend of the year last time out in Canada as both drivers failed to finish the race.

Before that, they wer🔯e nowhere pace-wise with Leclerc nursing an engine-related issue.

Leclerc conceded that he struggled for performance up until qualifying but praised the turnaround since pract🎉ice.

“I've had a very difficult time until quali really🔜, until🌱 FP3 I would say,” he added. “FP1 and FP2 was extremely difficult for me. FP1 we had the old package, we had to obviously do the compare between the two cars which was needed.

“But on a track ꦑlike Barcelona, when you lose two sets of tyres, it's difficult because you only have one lap per set and then you lose six or seven tenths on the second time lap. So just being a bit late to get into the rhythm. In FP2, the ꩲcar felt really out of place and the balance… I was really struggling.

“Today we changed basically, not everything, but a lot of things in the car. I꧙n FP3 I felt straight away much more at ease, however the pace is just not there. I'm happy in a way with the progress, with the feeling that I've had from yesterday to today, which I think will pay off in the race.

“I'm not happy and I'm disappointed wit﷽h the pace of the car today in qualifying because we are further away than what we had anticipated.”