Leclerc took the lead of the race at Silverstone after getting past Valtteri Bottas at the start🧜, before overtaking Lewis Hamilton who had just collided with Max Verstappen at Cops🐈e corner.

Surprisingly, Leclerc was able to manage the pace at the fron🐈t of the field, resisting the threat of Hamilton on the medium tyres.

Lec🍃lerc relinquished the lead to Hamilton on Lap 50, who showed o🌄utstanding pace on the harder rubber to take his eighth win on home soil.

While it was his best result🔯 of the season, the Monegasque driver was left with conflicting emotions.

“I don’t even know how I feel to be honest,” Leclerc told Sky Sports. “Half of me is very, very disappointed, half of me is very, very h🎶appy. I haven’t found which side I want to go yet. Of course, I am extremely happy about the pace. I am extremely happy with what we’ve shown today.

“We didn’t think that we had a car to fight where we fought today, especially with all the problems we had in the first stint that carried on a little bit for the race with these engine cuts. On the hards, we were a little bit less competitive compared to Mercedes and whenever I heard the pace of Lewis I was like ‘it’s just a matter of time’ until he comes back to me. I still had the hope th⛄at I could keep him behind but the difference of pace was just too big.”

Leclerc’s chances of finishing on the podium were put under serious threat in the first stint as he ಞsuffered intermittent losses of power.

After the race, Ferrari team boss Mattia Binot൲to revealed that the power cu🍃ts were related to the management of the fuel system.

Bino🐎tto explained: “We need to look at it carefully but it was related to the management of the fuel system. We had to somehow manage it through steering wheel switches, try driver defaults to fix it.

“We will have to have a look. He hadꦓ some [power] cuts that we fixed which were not that damaging the po✤wer or his pace at the end of the race.”