Sebastian Vettel says he trusts that Ferrari is providing him with equal machiner🅺y to Formula 1 teammate Charles Leclerc.

The four-time world champion endured anoth𒅌er difficult weekend for Ferrari at the Portuguese Grand Prix ﷽as he struggled to a low-key 10th place and was well off the pace of Leclerc, who converted a brilliant qualifying lap into a strong P4 finish.

Vettel was half a second slower than Leclerc in qualifyin♛g as he could only take 15th, 11 plac𝓰es behind the Monegasque, before making slow progress to claim the final point on offer in 10th.

Despite the large performance disparity between the ❀two drivers all season, Vettel insists that Ferrari is giving him the same specific🔯ation car as Leclerc.

“I have to think that we have the same car, I tru꧙st the people around me and in the garage,💫” Vettel said after the race.

“I have one thing that is obviousl💫y telling me by the stopwatch and by the lap times, and the other one is by my feeling. Feeling-wise I really struggled to get the good laps together, be consistent and feel the grip that Charles is able to feel. So I’m working [on] it.

“There’s nothing else other tha💟n work that will get me out of it,” he added. “Together with ⭕the team around me I’ll try to make the maximum and hopefully we are in a better place next week.

“Obviously our weakness ๊at the moment is the Saturday. On Sunday we are struggling because we are always in the pack and it’s a very difficult race from then and very different. So probably not always the best sort of comparison on Sunday.”

Ferrari team princi𝕴pal Mattia Binotto also moved𒐪 to rubbish emerging conspiracy theories that the pair are not getting the same equipment.

"Seb and Charles' cars are identical, no doubt," he told Sky Italia. "I sincerely hope that Sebaཧstian will be able to qualify better in Imola, and show more of what he is capable of during the race.

"Charles is certainly very good, but maybe𝐆 you expect even more from the second driver.𝔍"