Charles Leclerc admits Ferrari still does not have all of the answers to explain its lack of performance💙 at the 2019 Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix. 🌃;

A strong ♑showing during pre-season testing led to Ferrari being tipped as the early favourites by rivals Mercedes and Red Bull heading into the season, but the Italian squad’s perceived pace mysteriously disappeared in Melbourne. 

Hampered by set-up related issues and a lack of confidence in the handling of Ferrari’s SF90, Sebastian Vettel and new teammate Leclerc could only manage a distant fourth and fifth place in Australia, with race-winner Valtteri Bottas finishing nearly a minute up t𓃲he road. 

The lack of competitiveness led to an “very intense” post-race analysis following the opening round of the campaign as Vettel conceded there are no guarantees of a fix arriving in time for this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Despite the setback, Leclerc insists Ferrari expects to bounce back in Sakhir.

“We expect t✅o be more compeဣtitive, our package is strong and we have some answers to the lack of performance in Melbourne,” Leclerc said. 

"I don’t think we have all of them but we definitely have some answers 💖to it. Then we will only see here whether it was only track specific or if it is some🔯thing else but I am pretty confident in the package we have. 

“After the Barcelona testing we expected more but on the other hand I think there were a lot of positives to take,” h💮e added.

“Melbourne is not such a representative track on car perf🔴ormance, even though that doesn’t mean w🎶e are as strong as we want to be. 

“There is a lot of work to🃏 do and I am pretty confident in the team that we have done the right job in-between Melbourne and here to try and improve.

“Also, on my side I think I did quite a lot of mistakes in qualifying and during the race and I will try to not repeaꦅt these mistakes.”

Leclerc said he is confide✱nt Ferrari does not have a fundamental issue with its 2019 car concept and believes improvements can be ma💃de. 

“I think the mentality is the right one and we need to keep this t🧸hroughout the whole year, it is very positiveဣ,” Leclerc explained. 

“We are aware there is a lot of work to do but I am pretty confident🌞 in the team that they will do everything to improve the car. 

“I don’t think there’s any fundamental issues in the car concept, I’m pretty confident in that too it’s just 𓄧about fine-tuning. 

“As📖 I said, I don’t think it’s the real performance of the car that we have shown in Australia and we are all quite confident that we can be better already here in Bahrain. 

“The mentality is very good in t𒆙he team and we need to keep this spirit, we are all working as a team and all working togeth෴er. This is a good thing to see.”