Ross Brawn has singled out Charles Leclerc’s acc🉐omplished drive to third position in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, an unexpected fillip for a Ferrari te𒆙am struggling for consistent form at this stage in the season.

The Scuderia’s relative💖 struggles with the SF1000 have been well documented having slipped away from the lead fight into what has become a mid-field battle for the Prancing H🐭orse instead.

Nonetheless, Leclerc gave the team a welcome boost at Silverstone with what looked to be a solid run to fourth position, only to be pro💝moted into the top three when Valtteri Bottas suffered a puncture ahead of him in the closing stage♊s.

His second podium of the season, Leclerc’s efforts haven’t gone unnotiꦅced with Brawn – who served as technical director at Ferrari during its dominant era with Michael Schumacher – impressed to see the Monegasque extracting the maximum from an otherwise flawed package.

“Charles’ podium was fortuitous, following Valtteri’s tyre problem, but considering the di🐻fficulties they are having with th🐼e car, his performance was hugely impressive," Brawn said in his post-race blog on F1.com

“He continues to crunch out big results that are beyond what the car is really 🌳capable of. He is leaving us all waiting with bated breath for when they get the car sorted out. He’s driving quite excep☂tionally.

Leclerc’s fortunes are in stark contrast 𒀰to those of team-mate Sebastian Vettel, whose rotten 2020 F1 season hit a new low as 🅷he laboured to tenth position, well off the pace.

“Sebastian had a horrible weekend, and you get those. Clearly, Charles’s result was a bonus and Ferrari clearly need to improve the car – and quickly. But there are a lot of good and♑ experienced people at Ferrari and I’m optimistic.”