Charles Leclerc highlighted Ferrari’s strength over the kerbs and bumps as a key factor behind their resurgence at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix.

The Monaco weekend proved to🍌 be Leclerc and Ferrari’s strongest of the 2025 F1 season soಞ far.

Lecler🐼c qualified and finished in second place, scoring Ferrari’s second podium of the season.

Leclerc was able to challenge 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris for the win, putting the McLaren driver under immense pressure in the closing part ꦯof the race.

Heading into the weeken🅘d, L💎eclerc downplayed his chances because of the SF-25’s inherent weakness in low-speed corners.

Wh🐽ile Ferrari were still weaker than McLaren in this area, the Scuderia’s abilit🃏y to ride the kerbs and bumps worked in their favour.

Speaking in the FIA press conference꧋ after the race, Leclerc was “proud” to come away with a big result given Ferrari’s disappointing campaign so far.

“I’m never really happy with se♚cond place,” Leclerc said. “Then if you do a step back and you look at our season, I think this is a very positive result for the whole team.

“Especially coming here, we had very low expectations, just because our low-speed performance has been very bad all season. However, I think here, it’s a 🃏very specific track because there are a lot of bumps, a lo⛦t of kerb riding, and I think our car is pretty good on that.

“That helped us to close the gap. So, yeah, I think we did a reall🐠y good job, and 18 points plus the 10 of Lewis are very valuable 🎐points for the situation we are in.

“On that, I think we should be proud. Am I over the moon for a second pl🍌ace? Not really, but it’s been a very positive weekend anyway.”

Leclerc reflects on Norris fight

Leclerc got close to Norris on a number of occasions, particularly when the McLaren driver was stuck behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.

Lecle෴rc admitted that he ‘thought all night’ about how to get past Norris.

“It’s very di🐈fficult. When Max at the end was in front, I really ♛believed in it until the very end,” he added.

“I thought about it all ni🧜ghtꦜ, the two or three places where I could try something on Lando, and I was willing to take all the risks possible to try and get that win. But, unfortunately, these opportunities never came.

“Or at least I had maybe two or three laps where I was like, “OK🌱, maybe I go for it,” but Lando straight away saw those and defended very well. So I basically couldn’t really go and try something. At the end, there were ﷺno opportunities for me.”